Am 29.12.2011 12:24, schrieb Ulrich Mueller:
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.
IMHO, an _installed_ org mode should never heuristically search any support files -- the location should either be recorded into org-install.el as a constant or made configurable as a defcustom, whichever is more appropriate.
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?
Jambunathan will have to answer that, but a defvar seems the wrong solution to this problem. Also site-start should probably not be (mis-)used to configure the behaviour of packages that the user may not actually use. Making use of variables set in the Makefile is possible, but I would not recommend to do this in any other file except org-install.el.
-- Achim. (on the road :-)
