On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Alan E. Davis wrote: > I have a few questions about installing org-mode over an > emacs-snapshot on Ubuntu GNU/Linux. I have been doing > this by trial and error, and while it's been working I > am not sure I have all the bits correctly worked out. > First, how to edit the Makefile for the purpose. > > The package emacs-snapshot is installed in /usr . Does > that suggest prefix=/usr ? > > The lispdir---is this my local repository, where I've > unpacked the tar.gz file? (I am specifying this > directory in my load path). Or is it the snapshot > install lisp directory? > > I have similar questions for the info file. So far I've > been just copying it into /usr/share/info/emacs-snapshot > (or similar). Thank you for any suggestions/pointers.
May be you have ironed out your setup by now but FWIW, I can share how I setup Org. 1. Org is cloned from it's git repo in ~/elisp/org-mode.git: $ mkdir ~/elisp/ && cd ~/elisp $ git clone git://repo.or.cz/org-mode.git org-mode.git 2. Run `make' to compile elisp files and `make doc' to produce documentation (no need to edit Makefile to do any of these.) $ cd ~/elisp/org-mode.git && make && make doc 3. Do not run make install (Currently I also do not currently install info documentation anywhere by myself.) 4. Introduce Org mode to Emacs (add to your .emacs and reload): (add-to-list 'load-path "~/elisp/org-mode.git/lisp") (add-to-list 'load-path "~/elisp/org-mode.git/contrib/lisp") (require 'org-install) 5. Customize to your taste/needs e.g. my org-directory is set to "~/org.git" etc. I have this setup on Cygwin on a WinXP machine and a similar setup on a Debian box. I like this setup because it is available to all installed versions of Emacs (a Cygwin version and a Windows native version) and lets me stay current with a minimum of effort which boils down to: 1. $ cd ~/elisp/org-mode.git && git pull \ make clean && make && make doc 2. Browse the latest git log entries and diffs (I use tig) 3. Browse the updated portions of documentation (if org.texi, Changes.org and/or ChangeLog files were updated.) You may want to select a different location for housing git clone if you need to make that available to multiple users. HTH, -- Manish _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode