On Fri, December 3, 2010 13:48, Puneeth wrote: > On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 1:07 AM, David Dyer-Bennet <d...@dd-b.net> wrote: >> The only org-mode distributions I can find on the website say they don't >> work with the versions of emacs I have available. >> >> Our latest servers are running with CentOS 5.5 (same as Redhat >> Enterprise >> 5.5), which has emacs 21.4.1. Â Many of our older servers are running >> CentOS 4.7 or so. >> >> How badly does org-mode 7.3 not work with emacs 21.4? Â And/or where can >> I >> find older versions, with info on which emacs they work with? > > I'm not sure where you can find this, but as this page [1] says, > support for emacs has been dropped from Orgmode 7.x only. Use 6.36c > instead. A link to it, is provided in that page. > > [1] -- http://orgmode.org/Changes.html#sec-2_1_1
Given the two URLs, I have now deduced the pattern for downloading older distributions :-) . I still can't see a list of what's available, but the ones mentioned publicly that I've tried have all existed. (It's just the obvious: http://orgmode.org/org-<version>.tar.gz ) Thanks for finding the confirmation that 6.36c is supposed to work with Emacs 21. Unfortunately it doesn't. I've gotten failures on two missing files so far, sha1.el and hex-utils.el. I brought those over from a 23 distribution, they don't seem to have anything that won't work in 21. So now I'm getting: emacs -batch -q -no-site-file -eval "(setq load-path (cons (expand-file-name \"./lisp/\\ ") (cons \"/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp\" load-path)))" -f batch-byte-compile lisp/\ org-freemind.el Loading /usr/libexec/emacs/21.4/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu/fns-21.4.1-x.el (source)... While compiling toplevel forms in file /nfshome/ddb/org-6.36c/lisp/org-freemind.el: !! error (("Invalid escape character syntax")) Done make: *** [lisp/org-freemind.elc] Error 1 Examining org-freemind.el doesn't show me anything obvious. Trying to byte-compile within emacs gives me a completely unrelated error: Compiling file /nfshome/ddb/org-6.36c/lisp/org-freemind.el at Fri Dec 3 16:11:57 2010 !! File error (("Cannot open load file" "org")) (This seems to be load-path related, and I think just changing my load-path will fix this, and then MAYBE I'll see what the error in org-freemind.el is perhaps, I dunno.) Anyway, no, 6.36c certainly doesn't work with emacs 21.4.1 as installed by Centos 5.5 (emacs-21.4-20.el5, to be precise). -- David Dyer-Bennet, d...@dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode