Loading org from straight when doing an asynchronous export

[brabalan]

I have a strange bug where I am doing an asynchronous export form org, and there is an interaction between the org loaded in the current emacs session (from straight), and the org in the spawned emacs (whose init file specifies nothing, so I assume it’s the builitin one).

My question is: how can I define my asynchronous init file to load the org installed in straight?

For context, the bug I am seeing is this, in the *Org Export Process* buffer:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function org-fold-core--update-buffer-folds)
  org-fold-core--update-buffer-folds()
  #f(compiled-function () #<bytecode -0x121674acdc0e9d9b>)()
  funcall(#f(compiled-function () #<bytecode -0x121674acdc0e9d9b>))
  (progn nil (progn (setq kill-emacs-hook nil) (setq org-babel-confirm-evaluate-answer-no t)) (require 'ox) (funcall '#f(compiled-function () #<bytecode -0x121674acdc0e9d9b>)) (restore-buffer-modified-p nil) (print (let ((output (org-export-as 'beamer nil nil nil '(:output-file "slides.tex")))) (let ((temp-buffer (generate-new-buffer " *temp*" t))) (save-current-buffer (set-buffer temp-buffer) (unwind-protect (progn (insert output) (if ... nil ...) (let ... ...)) (and (buffer-name temp-buffer) (kill-buffer temp-buffer))))) (or (condition-case nil (progn (funcall 'org-latex-compile "slides.tex")) (error nil)) "slides.tex"))))
  (unwind-protect (progn nil (progn (setq kill-emacs-hook nil) (setq org-babel-confirm-evaluate-answer-no t)) (require 'ox) (funcall '#f(compiled-function () #<bytecode -0x121674acdc0e9d9b>)) (restore-buffer-modified-p nil) (print (let ((output (org-export-as 'beamer nil nil nil '...))) (let ((temp-buffer (generate-new-buffer " *temp*" t))) (save-current-buffer (set-buffer temp-buffer) (unwind-protect (progn ... ... ...) (and ... ...)))) (or (condition-case nil (progn (funcall ... "slides.tex")) (error nil)) "slides.tex")))) (and (buffer-name temp-buffer) (kill-buffer temp-buffer)))
  (save-current-buffer (set-buffer temp-buffer) (unwind-protect (progn nil (progn (setq kill-emacs-hook nil) (setq org-babel-confirm-evaluate-answer-no t)) (require 'ox) (funcall '#f(compiled-function () #<bytecode -0x121674acdc0e9d9b>)) (restore-buffer-modified-p nil) (print (let ((output (org-export-as ... nil nil nil ...))) (let ((temp-buffer ...)) (save-current-buffer (set-buffer temp-buffer) (unwind-protect ... ...))) (or (condition-case nil (progn ...) (error nil)) "slides.tex")))) (and (buffer-name temp-buffer) (kill-buffer temp-buffer))))
  (let ((temp-buffer (generate-new-buffer " *temp*" t))) (save-current-buffer (set-buffer temp-buffer) (unwind-protect (progn nil (progn (setq kill-emacs-hook nil) (setq org-babel-confirm-evaluate-answer-no t)) (require 'ox) (funcall '#f(compiled-function () #<bytecode -0x121674acdc0e9d9b>)) (restore-buffer-modified-p nil) (print (let ((output ...)) (let (...) (save-current-buffer ... ...)) (or (condition-case nil ... ...) "slides.tex")))) (and (buffer-name temp-buffer) (kill-buffer temp-buffer)))))
  load-with-code-conversion("/private/var/folders/p6/3p2365qn1dx08q33rqwnr2hh00..." "/private/var/folders/p6/3p2365qn1dx08q33rqwnr2hh00..." nil t)
  command-line-1(("-l" "/Users/schmitta/work/skeletons/research/talks/Effe..." "-l" "/var/folders/p6/3p2365qn1dx08q33rqwnr2hh0000gn/T/o..."))
  command-line()
  normal-top-level()

and the problematic function org-fold-core--update-buffer-folds was only introduced at the end of February 2024.

[progfolio]

My question is: how can I define my asynchronous init file to load the org installed in straight?

Adding straight's build folder for Org to load-path should work.
e.g.

(add-to-list 'load-path (expand-file-name "straight/build/org/" user-emacs-directory))

[brabalan]

Thank you for the suggestion. Unfortunately it is still picking up the wrong org version. I ended up loading org with straight:

(setq user-emacs-directory "/Users/schmitta/projets/plain-emacs-config/")

(load (concat user-emacs-directory "straight/repos/straight.el/bootstrap.el") nil 'nomessage)

(straight-use-package 'use-package)

(use-package straight
  :custom
  (straight-use-package-by-default t))

(use-package org
  :config ...)

[progfolio]

It shouldn't be necessary to do all that if you already have Org installed via straight with your config.
Perhaps user-emacs-directory is rebound and that's why it wasn't found.
You could add a (message "%s" user-emacs-directory) to the export config to test that theory.

Sorry, I don't use Org's export async and I don't have much info to go off here.

[brabalan]

You are correct. I don’t know what I did wrong, but this is indeed working now. Thanks a lot!