Hello Ulrich > Hi, > In Gentoo we have an issue with the location of the OpenDocument style > files, reported to us in bug 396269 [1].
Makefile in org-7.8.02 is buggy and breaks the ODT exporter. Bastien, is likely to re-publish a version of org-7.8.x soon. Lately, there has been some confusion around how and where OpenDocument style files go. There have also been multiple bug reports surrounding broken export. > When org-mode is installed as a separate Gentoo package, its lisp > files are installed in /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/org-mode/. > According to our policy, non-lisp files would go to > /usr/share/emacs/etc/org-mode/. We would pass this as the "etcdir" > parameter to "make install", so the odt style files would be installed > in stylesdir = /usr/share/emacs/etc/org-mode/styles/. Org-7.8.x has been accepted in to Emacs-24.1 [1]. I have proposed that the style files go as "c:/Program Files/emacs-24.0.92/etc/org/*.xml" [2]. Note that under stock Emacs, the org package go under "org" subdir. (locate-library "org.elc") => "c:/Program Files/emacs-24.0.92/lisp/org/org.elc" So, will it be acceptable, if org-odt.el searches for styles file under <wherever-org-odt.elc-is>/../../etc/org/. (For vanilla Emacs, this is same as `data-directory'/etc/org. See C-h v data-directory) This way the package structure under gentoo will parallel the structure under stock Emacs. I am copying Sebastien (the debian maintainer) and Dave (who fixed the Makefile subsequent to 7.8.02) release. If there is consensus, I will fix org-odt.el and also Makefile. Side Note: I am little bit hesitant to make org-odt-styles-dir a defcustom. Already there are defcustoms for org-export-odt-styles-file and org-export-odt-content-template-file and making org-odt-styles-dir will add needless confusion to the users. Jambunathan K. Footnotes: [1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2011-12/msg00607.html [2] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2011-12/msg00571.html > Now org-odt.el currently defines org-odt-styles-dir in a defconst, > and it searches only in ../etc/styles/, ./etc/styles/, and ./etc/org/ > relative to lispdir. Obviously it cannot find the files in the Gentoo > location. > > Now my question, could the defconst be changed to a defvar, so that we > can specify the location in our site-start file? Or, preferably, could > the etcdir specified in "make" command be honoured in the lisp code? > > Ulrich > > [1] <https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=396269> > > --