Re: [O] Cannot load org after updating to 9.0

[Thibaut Verron]

2016-11-07 12:44 GMT+01:00 Thibaut Verron <address@hidden>:

Hello,

I updated my emacs packages this morning, including org 9.0, from GNU elpa. Apparently (based on other folders in my elpa installation folder), my last previous update was on april 11, 2016, so the problem may not come from the very latest version. Nonetheless, I didn't find any other mention of it online.

So, how does the problem appear? When I start emacs, I get the following "warnings":

> WARNING: No org-loaddefs.el file could be found from where org.el is loaded.

> You need to run "make" or "make autoloads" from Org lisp directory

> Warning (initialization): An error occurred while loading `(...)/.emacs.d/init.el':

> Symbol's function definition is void: org-element-update-syntax

For the first warning, I tried looking in the ~/.emacs.d/elpa/org-20161102 folder (which is where the loaded org.el file is), and it does contain org-loaddefs.el. There is no makefile, but I guess that it is normal for an installation using elpa. 

The second warning is an error and blocks further evaluation of my init file. For some reason though, --debug-init doesn't give any stacktrace.

I'm using emacs 24.3.1 on linux (ubuntu 14.04).

When I try to evaluate org-loaddefs manually, I get an error "Symbol's function definition is void: function-put".

Apparently, based on this thread [1], it can happen if I installed org using a more recent version of emacs than the one I am using currently. It was certainly the case until this morning, but I installed the update from this computer, and after the problem appeared, I uninstalled and reinstalled org, again from this computer.

Replacing occurrences of function-put with put got rid of the first warning (the warning message could have been more helpful), but not of the second one.

org-element-update-syntax is defined in org-element.el, so I guess it is another compilation problem. How can I make sure that the package is compiled for my version of emacs?

Thibaut Verron

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2014-05/msg00336.html