Re: [O] Beginner installing org-mode 9.1.2 from git fails on homebrew emacs-mac

[Umbromancer]

Thanks for putting me on the right track. I would not find that out by
my self (+1 for the /etc/paths file too!).

That was in fact the problem, somewhere /usr/local/bin/emacs is being
called which has an outdate cl-lib.
I installed both emacs-mac and emacs-plus via homebrew and was able to
successfully upgrade the bundled org-mode to the git stable
origin/maint in both cases.

Miguel

On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 8:56 PM, Tim Cross <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> That error you see re: missing cl-lib is an error I have seen because
> the system is getting confused over emacs versions. Essentially,
> somewhere in the scripts, a call is being made to 'emacs' and it is
> finding the old /usr/bin/emacs rather than the one you have installed
> with homebrew.
>
> I have found this happens when I use the 'macports' version i.e. the
> brew cask version of emacs. I don't get this problem when I just do a
> brew install emacs (remembering to manually add the cocoa, svg,
> imagemagick etc command line switches). I've not really looked into it
> as the non-cask version of emacs works just fine, but I think the issue
> is that the cask version does not create binaries or sym links to
> binaries in /usr/local/bin for 'emacs' (note lower case), so the version
> in /usr/bin/emacs is being picked up and that version predates cl-lib.
>
> Try doing a `which emacs` in a terminal to see which version is being
> found and then do whatever you need to do to ensure the homebrew version
> is found in the PATH before the stock standard OSX version.
>
> Tim
>
> BTW it is also a good idea to add /usr/local/bin to the /etc/paths file
> to ensure that directory is added before /usr/bin by default when you
> login etc.
>
>
>
>
>
>> Solved.
>>
>> I was successful following the same steps using homebrew emacs-plus
>> (https://github.com/d12frosted/homebrew-emacs-plus) instead of
>> homebrew emacs-mac
>> (https://github.com/railwaycat/homebrew-emacsmacport). So it seems
>> this must be an issue with the railwaycat distro or its homebrew
>> formula.
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 11:51 PM, Umbromancer <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> This is my first post on the list, and an definitively an emacs/org-mode 
>>> newbe.
>>>
>>> I've just upgraded to emacs 25.3.1 via homebrew (emacs-mac) and the
>>> included org-version is 8.2.10. I'm trying to setup the git stable
>>> release_9.1.2 as per suggestion on the worg faq. I've cloned the git
>>> repo and duplicated default.mk into local.mk and edited it so as to
>>> point to the homebrew Emacs location.
>>>
>>> I've upgraded org-mode on my previous Emacs 24 install using the
>>> "same" method. The only difference being previously I used the
>>> org-mode stable download from org-mode.org instead of the git sources.
>>>
>>> After editing local.mk and issuing the make commands, I get:
>>> $ make cleanall
>>> ...
>>> $ make install
>>> Miguels-MBP:org-mode me$ make install
>>> /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/make -C doc install
>>> org-version: 9.1.2 (release_9.1.2)
>>> makeinfo --no-split org.texi -o org
>>> /Users/me/elisp/org-mode/doc//docstyle.texi:3: warning: unrecognized
>>> encoding name `UTF-8'.
>>> if [ ! -d /usr/local/Cellar/emacs-mac/emacs-25.3-mac-6.8/share/info/emacs
>>> ]; then install -m 755 -d
>>> /usr/local/Cellar/emacs-mac/emacs-25.3-mac-6.8/share/info/emacs; else
>>> true; fi ;
>>> install -m 644 -p org
>>> /usr/local/Cellar/emacs-mac/emacs-25.3-mac-6.8/share/info/emacs
>>> install-info 
>>> --infodir=/usr/local/Cellar/emacs-mac/emacs-25.3-mac-6.8/share/info/emacs
>>> org
>>> /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/make -C etc install
>>> for dir in styles schema ; do \
>>>       if [ ! -d
>>> /usr/local/Cellar/emacs-mac/emacs-25.3-mac-6.8/share/emacs/25.3/etc/org/${dir}
>>> ] ; then \
>>>         install -m 755 -d
>>> /usr/local/Cellar/emacs-mac/emacs-25.3-mac-6.8/share/emacs/25.3/etc/org/${dir}
>>> ; \
>>>       fi ; \
>>>       install -m 644 -p ${dir}/*
>>> /usr/local/Cellar/emacs-mac/emacs-25.3-mac-6.8/share/emacs/25.3/etc/org/${dir}
>>> ; \
>>>     done ;
>>> /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/make -C lisp install
>>> rm -f org-version.el org-loaddefs.el org-version.elc org-loaddefs.elc
>>> org-install.elc
>>> org-version: 9.1.2 (release_9.1.2)
>>> Loading /Users/me/elisp/org-mode/lisp/org-compat.el (source)...
>>> Cannot open load file: cl-lib
>>> make[1]: *** [org-version.el] Error 255
>>> make: *** [install-lisp] Error 2
>>> Miguels-MBP:org-mode me$
>>>
>>> cl-lib is of course available when I run Emacs.
>>> I'm mostly likely missing something which fails to be obvious for me...
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance for all the help,
>>> Miguel
>
>
> --
> Tim Cross