Warning on Org installation

[xuchunyang]

When I use (straight-use-package 'org) to install the latest Org, it displays the following in *Warning* buffer

Warning (emacs): Could not define org version correctly. Check installation! [2 times]

and M-x org-version shows

Org mode version N/A (N/A !!check installation!! @ /Users/xcy/tempt/.emacs.d/straight/build/org/)

[raxod502]

This should be fixed by #72. The problem is that Org produces this warning if you byte-compile it without running make first. The issue should be fixable via some combination of #72 and #115.

[raxod502]

See also #168 (comment), where I mention some hacks I put in my init-file to inhibit the warning until this issue is fixed.

[xuchunyang]

Thanks for the info. I'm going to close this issue since it has been tracked by other issue.

For now, I switch back to make to install org manually, it looks the most obvious downside is that I should not install any package which declares org as its dependency, I think I can live with that.

[caadar]

I should not install any package which declares org as its dependency...

Not a problem at all.

(straight-override-recipe
   '(org :type git :host github :repo "emacsmirror/org" :no-build t))
(use-package org)

(Correct host, repo etc if needed.)

[raxod502]

Actually, I think you can just do

(straight-use-package '(org :local-repo nil))

in the latest version of straight.el.

(Unless of course you want Org to be cloned, but not loaded, in which case @caadar definitely has the right approach.)

[xuchunyang]

Thank you both for the tips, they helps.

[raxod502]

There's a much better hack now, thanks to radian-software/radian#410.

[dustinlacewell-wk]

I'm still getting this error, even with the updated hacks and everything.

[raxod502]

It continues to work for me. Can you post your configuration?

[dustinlacewell-wk]

I think it had to do something with with something causing org8 to be loaded some how. I had to completely deconstruct my init file and rebuild it from scratch, adding piece by piece back, with all my org stuff right after straight.el boostrapping. I still have no idea what was causing org-8 to be loaded. I was getting that NA version thing.

I'm thinking that to help straight.el in terms of adoption in this time (I do a lot of straight.el evangelism) to add a section on the README, maybe near the bit where you explain how to bootstrap straight.el, what a minimal working Org 9 configuration looks like.

Hey anyway, thanks so much for this package, it is definitely the future for emacs.

[raxod502]

@dustinlacewell-wk I've done as you suggest on develop; let me know what you think. I'm glad you like straight.el :)

[dustinlacewell-wk]

lgtm :)