Re: Resources for an old newbie ?

[Michael Heerdegen]

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.