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Re: Resources for an old newbie ?
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Michael Heerdegen |
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Re: Resources for an old newbie ? |
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Sun, 04 Jun 2023 01:19:26 +0200 |
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David Masterson <dsmasterson@gmail.com> writes:
> >> > But imagine what happens if after half-an hour of compilation
> >> > inexperienced user is presented with "Org version mismatch error", as
> >> > I have been several times before. (still tracking that error down,
> >> > for now I usually "solve it" by `git clean -dxf` and thus full
> >> > rebuild, but that's non-optimal)
> >>
> >> That's probably a conflict with the pre-installed Emacs on Debian?
> >> Maybe remove the old version?
> >
> > It's something that happens from time to time when recompiling Emacs,
> > there is no direct relation to other Emacs installations.
>
> I don't know. I believe, in this case, it was something in org-compat.el
> for setting up version compatability that didn't work well when
> compiled. The old .elc (in the pre-installed Emacs) was overriding the
> current .el (in the ELPA package) and the change in org-compat for
> (IIRC) Org 9.3 was enough that new code dependent on the new org-compat
> broke (org-compat is supposed to handle that). I thought later versions
> of Org fixed this problem.
I remember hearing about this one. We probably speak about different
but related and similarly behaving issues.
Michael.
- Re: Resources for an old newbie ?, David Masterson, 2023/06/03
- Re: Resources for an old newbie ?, David Masterson, 2023/06/03
- Re: Resources for an old newbie ?, Michael Heerdegen, 2023/06/03
- Re: Resources for an old newbie ?, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/06/04
- Re: Resources for an old newbie ?, David Masterson, 2023/06/04
- Re: Resources for an old newbie ?, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/06/04
- Re: Resources for an old newbie ?, Emanuel Berg, 2023/06/04
- Re: Resources for an old newbie ?, David Masterson, 2023/06/04