Re: [O] difficulty installing 7.9 with the new build system: org-version not informative

[Brian van den Broek]

On 25 August 2012 16:12, Bastien <address@hidden> wrote:
> Achim Gratz <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>> I would suggest that the installation instructions at
>>> <http://orgmode.org/manual/Installation.html#Installation> be updated,
>>> as there one finds nothing about the need for ORGVERSION and
>>> GITVERSION arguments to make.
>>
>> I hadn't really considered installation from tarballs down to that
>> detail.  I may just add some code to recognize that situation and put
>> the version information into the tarball itself.
>
> There is something I don't understand here: the version *is* in
> org-7.9.tar.gz and org-7.9.zip with lisp/org-version.el.
>
> I assumed that, in the absence of git, `make' would rely on this.
>
> True?
>
> --
>  Bastien


Hi Bastien,

I don't warrant that all else is in order on my system, but for me, it did not.

Best,

Brian