Re: [O] ORG_ADD_CONTRIB and org-e-odt.el don't always play well together

[Nick Dokos]

Achim Gratz <address@hidden> wrote:

> Nick Dokos writes:
> > I added the following to my local.mk
> >
> > ORG_ADD_CONTRIB = org-e-*
> >
> > so when I do "make autoloads" (running from the git directory and
> > without compiling), it copies (among others) contrib/lisp/org-e-odt.el
> > to lisp/:
> >
> > ,----
> > | $ make autoloads
> > | make -C lisp autoloads
> > | make[1]: Entering directory `/home/nick/src/emacs/org/org-mode/lisp'
> > | rm -f org-version.el org-loaddefs.el org-version.elc org-loaddefs.elc
> > | install -m 644 -p ../contrib/lisp/org-e-ascii.el 
> > ../contrib/lisp/org-e-beamer.el ../contrib/lisp/org-e-groff.el\
> > |                   ../contrib/lisp/org-e-html.el 
> > ../contrib/lisp/org-e-latex.el ../contrib/lisp/org-e-man.el\
> > |                   ../contrib/lisp/org-e-odt.el 
> > ../contrib/lisp/org-e-publish.el ../contrib/lisp/org-e-texinfo.el .
> > | org-version: 7.9.2 (release_7.9.2-382-g1ef9ee)
> > `----
> >
> > When I then try to org-reload, I get an error because
> > org-e-odt.el restricts the path of the style file to one of three
> > choices (../../etc/styles, ../../etc/org, ../etc/org) relative to where
> > org-e-odt.el is found. None of these is satisfactory in this context: it
> > would have to be ../etc/styles.
> 
> It would work if Bastien had not unilaterally decided to remove the
> configuration variable that allowed one to point to the correct place.
> Until he's made up his mind on how to deal with the breakage, please
> help yourself out with a symlink or similar kludge.
> 
> 

It's no big deal for me: I just stumbled across it and I thought I'd report it.

Nick