Re: Resources for an old newbie ?

[David Masterson]

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:

> 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.

-- 
David Masterson