It seems i'm flooding John's inbox trying to send back this message into
the discussion. I'm deeply sorry for that.

I did what John suggested:
- git clone...
- cd to the repository
- make (which i think does two things, byte-compilation and generating
org-loaddefs.el)
- add lisp dir to load-path

It did worked since M-x org-version shows the right path (and version), but
i'm used to browse the Info manual quite regularly. Before switching to
GNU/Linux I used to install the ELPA package on a freshly unpacked Emacs
(trunk builds for Windows); it was a pretty straightforward process and it
seems to take care of everything. I'm not going to do that again since the
ELPA package comes from the maint branch.

Achim Gratz writes:
> The default install method installs into site-lisp, not into the Emacs
> install directory.  The reason I keep advocating that method is that
> conveniently the buil-in load-path is already set up to do the right
> thing from the very beginning (you only need to remember to require
> org-loaddefs from your .emacs) and you can fall back easily to the
> built-in Org from Emacs itself if needed.

Thanks for your reply. Which one is the default install method? If it's
'make install', do i need to tweak local.mk because of the location of my
Emacs installation (as explained here:
http://orgmode.org/worg/dev/org-build-system.html#sec-4-1-3)? In my system
(Debian) Emacs is in /usr/local/.

And does this method allows to have the latest info manual without
overriding the built-in org-mode installation?


2014-06-30 18:51 GMT-04:00 John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com>:

> On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 5:44 PM, Vicente Vera <vicentemvp@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hello. I'm quite confused with the installation options.
> >
> > Recently started out a Debian base system and compiled Emacs from the bzr
> > repository. That came out fine, so I ran 'make install' and now Emacs
> > 24.4.50 sits in /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/share, etc.
> >
> > I want to install the master branch of org-mode. Currently I followed
> these
> > steps:
> >
> > - cd ~/org_from_git/
> > - git clone git://orgmode.org/org-mode.git
> >
> > ¿Do i need to tweak 'local.mk' so the prefix variable points to
> > /usr/local/share before running make?
> > ¿Which make option should i use (besides 'make autoloads')?
>
> Did you search around a bit? There's lots of posts with people's
> setups. You certainly *can* install over the top of the Org that came
> with your version of Emacs (pointing it to install to
> /usr/local/share, I suppose), though I've never gone that route. Some
> mailing list examples from googling about Orgmode git installation:
> - Achim's post:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2013-05/msg00609.html
> - My setup:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2014-04/msg00396.html
>
> From mine, you'll note I never "install" Org -- just clone to a
> directory, make, and tell Emacs about it in .emacs... done!
>
>
> John
>
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
>