Re: [O] difficulty installing 7.9 with the new build system: org-version not informative

[Bastien]

Achim Gratz <address@hidden> writes:

>> I would suggest that the installation instructions at
>> <http://orgmode.org/manual/Installation.html#Installation> be updated,
>> as there one finds nothing about the need for ORGVERSION and
>> GITVERSION arguments to make.
>
> I hadn't really considered installation from tarballs down to that
> detail.  I may just add some code to recognize that situation and put
> the version information into the tarball itself.

There is something I don't understand here: the version *is* in
org-7.9.tar.gz and org-7.9.zip with lisp/org-version.el.

I assumed that, in the absence of git, `make' would rely on this.

True?

-- 
 Bastien