Re: [O] Can't make org-install.el

[Sebastien Vauban]

Hi Achim,

Achim Gratz wrote:
> Sebastien Vauban writes:
>> Buffer is read-only: #<buffer org-install.el>
>
> Here's your clue: the Emacs that is trying to create org-install.el
> doesn't have write access and thus cannot save the file.  At that point,
> no org-install.el should exist, since it should have been removed before
> it is created anew.  But it likely still exists (and is not writable).
> No such problem seems to have struck org-version.el.
>
>> To overcome problems, I tried to copy org-install.el from the latest Emacs 24
>> alpha version, but the newly function `org-find-library-dir' is unknown.
>
> This will never work right...

I know. This is just a very rude approach, letting me use Org for my
day-to-day files. Otherwise, I really am stuck... Except if I would require
all the packages, individually.

>> However, the first problem (make install) is the one I still need to resolve.
>> Any idea?
>
> Check what the access rights are in that directory (not just the POSIX
> file modes, but also the Windows ACL may interfere).  Remove any
> org-install.el that may be there.  Make should then work correctly.

I did it from scratch in two different directories, with the same results.

- rm -rf org-mode
- git clone
- make autoloads

Still the same problem of read-only buffer...

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
address@hidden:~/src 0$ git clone git://orgmode.org/org-mode.git
Cloning into 'org-mode'...
address@hidden:~/src 0$ cd org-mode
address@hidden:src/org-mode 0$ make autoloads
======================================================
= Invoke "make help" for a synopsis of make targets. =
= Created a default local.mk template.               =
= Setting "oldorg" as the default target.            =
= Please adapt local.mk to your local setup!         =
======================================================
make -C lisp autoloads
make[1]: Entering directory `/cygdrive/c/home/sva/src/org-mode/lisp'
rm -f org-version.el org-install.el org-version.elc org-install.elc
org-version: 7.8.10 (release_7.8.10-572-g40a789)
Loading c:/home/sva/src/org-mode/lisp/org-compat.el (source)...
Loading c:/home/sva/src/org-mode/UTILITIES/org-fixup.el (source)...
Loading vc-svn...
Loading vc-git...
Saving file c:/home/sva/src/org-mode/lisp/org-version.el...
Wrote c:/home/sva/src/org-mode/lisp/org-version.el
org-install: 7.8.10 (release_7.8.10-572-g40a789)
Loading c:/home/sva/src/org-mode/lisp/org-compat.el (source)...
Loading c:/home/sva/src/org-mode/UTILITIES/org-fixup.el (source)...
Buffer is read-only: #<buffer org-install.el>
Makefile:30: recipe for target `org-install.el' failed
make[1]: *** [org-install.el] Error 127
make[1]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/home/sva/src/org-mode/lisp'
targets.mk:87: recipe for target `autoloads' failed
make: *** [autoloads] Error 2
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Though, Cygwin permissions seem OK:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
address@hidden:src/org-mode 0$ ls
Makefile  README_DIST  README_maintainer  contrib     doc  lisp      
request-assign-future.txt  testing
README    README_GIT   UTILITIES          default.mk  etc  local.mk  targets.mk
address@hidden:src/org-mode 0$ ls -l
total 44
-rw-r--r--  1 Seb Aucun  3179 May 19 12:30 Makefile
-rw-r--r--  1 Seb Aucun  1138 May 19 12:30 README
-rw-r--r--  1 Seb Aucun  1054 May 19 12:30 README_DIST
-rw-r--r--  1 Seb Aucun  3522 May 19 12:30 README_GIT
-rw-r--r--  1 Seb Aucun 11757 May 19 12:30 README_maintainer
drwxr-xr-x+ 1 Seb Aucun     0 May 19 12:30 UTILITIES
drwxr-xr-x+ 1 Seb Aucun     0 May 19 12:30 contrib
-rw-r--r--  1 Seb Aucun  3865 May 19 12:30 default.mk
drwxr-xr-x+ 1 Seb Aucun     0 May 19 12:30 doc
drwxr-xr-x+ 1 Seb Aucun     0 May 19 12:30 etc
drwxr-xr-x+ 1 Seb Aucun     0 May 19 12:30 lisp
-rw-r--r--  1 Seb Aucun  1460 May 19 12:30 local.mk
-rw-r--r--  1 Seb Aucun  1007 May 19 12:30 request-assign-future.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 Seb Aucun  3194 May 19 12:30 targets.mk
drwxr-xr-x+ 1 Seb Aucun     0 May 19 12:30 testing
address@hidden:src/org-mode 0$ ls -l lisp
total 3776
-rw-r--r-- 1 Seb Aucun   1219 May 19 12:30 Makefile
-rw-r--r-- 1 Seb Aucun   6789 May 19 12:30 ob-C.el
-rw-r--r-- 1 Seb Aucun  13621 May 19 12:30 ob-R.el
[...]
-rw-r--r-- 1 Seb Aucun  13772 May 19 12:30 org-habit.el
-rw-r--r-- 1 Seb Aucun  96704 May 19 12:30 org-html.el
-rw-r--r-- 1 Seb Aucun  26322 May 19 12:30 org-icalendar.el
-rw-r--r-- 1 Seb Aucun  22594 May 19 12:30 org-id.el
-rw-r--r-- 1 Seb Aucun  17412 May 19 12:30 org-indent.el
-rw-r--r-- 1 Seb Aucun   2696 May 19 12:30 org-info.el
-rw-r--r-- 1 Seb Aucun  17719 May 19 12:30 org-inlinetask.el
-rw-r--r-- 1 Seb Aucun   9198 May 19 12:30 org-irc.el
-rw-r--r-- 1 Seb Aucun   7853 May 19 12:30 org-jsinfo.el
[...]
-rw-r--r-- 1 Seb Aucun  15881 May 19 12:30 org-timer.el
-rwxr-xr-x 1 Seb Aucun    721 May 19 12:30 org-version.el
-rw-r--r-- 1 Seb Aucun   7317 May 19 12:30 org-vm.el
-rw-r--r-- 1 Seb Aucun   7188 May 19 12:30 org-w3m.el
-rw-r--r-- 1 Seb Aucun  11546 May 19 12:30 org-wl.el
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Same for Windows permissions.

Would it be possible to have a more detailed reporting of the problem?  For
example, I don't understand why org-install.el should be read-only, while
there was none before making autoloads... So, such a buffer has been
created... but can't be saved?

Other question: why do we have to make org-install.el?  Shouldn't it be
distributed with the other files, without requiring all users to make it?

Thanks for your help...

Best regards,
  Seb

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Sebastien Vauban