Hi all, tl;dr I've seemingly managed to install org 7.9, but M-x org-version yields Org-mode version N/A (N/A @ /home/brian/.emacsd/site-lisp/)
The details: I've not really been following the new build system discussions, but was half-ways dreading my first org-mode upgrade unde them :-) I just downloaded the gz.tar of the newly released 7.9; it untarred to org-7.9-3-ga986d3. I did my best to follow the instruction on <http://orgmode.org/manual/Installation.html> and in local.mk. I made the changes: # Where local software is found # Note, *not* ~/.emacs.d but ~/.emacsd, a dir I created to store my personal emacs stuff prefix = /home/brian/.emacsd # Where local lisp files go. lispdir= $(prefix)/site-lisp # Where local data files go. datadir = $(prefix)/etc # Where info files go. infodir = $(prefix)/info ORG_MAKE_DOC = info # html pdf INSTALL_INFO = ginstall-info # Debian: avoid harmless warning message (Apart from the ORG_MAKE_DOC setting, these are exactly the changes I have always made to upgrade from one released version to another. I've tried multiple times both with and without the ORG_MAKE_DOC and INSTALL_INFO settings.) I then ran make help, make config, and make install as instructed. (After the issue described below, I also deleted everything installed and tried again with sudo make install achieving the same result.) Once that was done, I launched a fresh emacs, visited an .org file, and ran M-x org-version. What I got was: Org-mode version N/A (N/A @ /home/brian/.emacsd/site-lisp/) This seems to indicate that something went wrong, somewhere. I'm pretty sure at least some of org 7.9 got installed. On the newly installed version, I have org-insert-all-links available (via M-x org-insert-all<TAB>) whereas on the previously installed version of org-mode, tab completion for this command name does not work. M-x emacs-version yields: GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.1) of 2010-12-11 on brahms, modified by Debian ~$ make --version GNU Make 3.81 The first things I have in my .emacs that are org-related are adding /home/brian/.emacsd/site-lisp to my load path and then (require 'org-install). I've little doubt it is operator error, but I am at a loss for how to proceed. Little help? Thanks and best, Brian vdB