> I will go through your detailed list of suggestions a bit
> later. Thanks a lot again for your help!
I hope you do revert with your observations on broken setup.
In my experience, most users don't :-).
There is some confusion around the area of macros and autoloads.
Something is amiss. Only non-programmers seem to run in to this and it
has been very difficult to understand what is happening on their setup,
without their co-operation.
Here is another suggestion. A bit easy one though. This will be
archived and will serve as a written hint to debug macro/autoload
issues.
When the err happens,
1. Load Emacs like this. Adjust the `-L's. Note also the -Q.
emacs --debug-init -L ~/src/org-mode/lisp -L
~/src/org-mode/contrib/lisp -Q
2. M-x load-library RET org-odt RET
3. M-x ielm RET
Here is a sample session both for org-odt and org-e-odt. Sample
illustrates the sequence of events that led org-compat.el to be
loaded.
The sequence below is courtesy this suggestion/thread:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2012-11/msg00227.html
So the load chain is:
org-compat <= org <= org-exp <= org-lparse <= org-odt
,----
| *** Welcome to IELM *** Type (describe-mode) for help.
| ELISP> (symbol-file 'org-compat 'require)
| "/home/kjambunathan/src/org-mode/lisp/org.elc"
| ELISP> (symbol-file 'org 'require)
| "/home/kjambunathan/src/org-mode/lisp/org-exp.elc"
| ELISP> (symbol-file 'org-exp 'require)
| "/home/kjambunathan/src/org-mode/lisp/org-lparse.elc"
| ELISP> (symbol-file 'org-lparse 'require)
| "/home/kjambunathan/src/org-mode/lisp/org-odt.elc"
| ELISP> (symbol-file 'org-odt 'require)
| nil
`----
So the load chain is:
org-compat <= org <= org-element <= org-export <= org-e-odt
,----
| *** Welcome to IELM *** Type (describe-mode) for help.
| ELISP> (symbol-file 'org-compat 'require)
| "/home/kjambunathan/src/org-mode/lisp/org.elc"
| ELISP> (symbol-file 'org 'require)
| "/home/kjambunathan/src/org-mode/lisp/org-element.elc"
| ELISP> (symbol-file 'org-element 'require)
| "/home/kjambunathan/src/org-mode/contrib/lisp/org-export.el"
| ELISP> (symbol-file 'org-export 'require)
| "/home/kjambunathan/src/org-mode/contrib/lisp/org-e-odt.elc"
| ELISP> (symbol-file 'org-e-odt 'require)
| nil
| ELISP> (symbol-file 'org-macs 'require)
| "/home/kjambunathan/src/org-mode/lisp/org.elc"
`----
ps: I hope I am invoking `symbol-file' properly.
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