Initializing emacs with org-babel : Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function cl-member)

Question

I have migrated my init.el to an org-mode file, to use the flexibility of org-mode coupled with babel.

However, I cannot get it to work. I suspect some dependency error, have tried a lot of things to fix it, but I don't have the skills to understand where things go wrong :

1. here my init.el --- does nothing but calling an org file containing all the init code

   ;; from http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/intro.html#literate-programming
   ;;; init.el --- Where all the magic begins
   ;;
   ;; This file loads Org-mode and then loads the rest of our Emacs initialization from Emacs lisp
   ;; embedded in literate Org-mode files.
   
   ;; Load up Org Mode and (now included) Org Babel for elisp embedded in Org Mode files
   (package-initialize)
   (setq dotfiles-dir (file-name-directory (or (buffer-file-name) load-file-name)))
   (require 'org-install)
   (require 'ob-tangle)
   (org-babel-load-file (expand-file-name "emacs-and-org-init.org" dotfiles-dir))
   

2. this is the org file --- even minimal it throws the error

   #+TITLE: Emacs and Org init
   #+OPTIONS: toc:2 num:nil ^:nil
   
   #+begin_quote
     Emacs outshines all other editing software in approximately the same
     way that the noonday sun does the stars. It is not just bigger and
     brighter; it simply makes everything else vanish.
   
     -- Neal Stephenson, "In the Beginning was the Command Line"
   #+end_quote
   
   * Implementation
   This section contains all the init code.
   ** basics
   this is commented on purpose --- even commented, the use of this file throw the error "Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function cl-member)"
     #+begin_src emacs-lisp
   ;;    (add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/elpa/") ;;;; this is commented on purpose --- even commented, the use of this file throw the error "Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function cl-member)"
     #+end_src
   
   ** the rest of the code
   - this sections is almost empty for the moment, so that this file is the minimal file that throw an error
   
   #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
   ;; this should appear in the emacs-and-org.el, but does not
   (message "test")
   #+END_SRC
   

3. and here the resulting emacs-and-org.el --- the first "org babel code section" is here, but the second is missing

   ;;    (add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/elpa/") ;;;; this is commented on purpose -- even commented, the use of this file throw the error "Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function cl-member)"
   

4. the error thrown :

   Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function cl-member)
   

Who could help ?

M-x version
GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.4.2) of 2013-09-29 on gkar, modified by Debian

M-x org-version
Org-mode version 8.2.1 (8.2.1-3-g35e5e5-elpa @ /home/me/.emacs.d/elpa/org-20131007/)

Answer 1

Here's the minimal setup:

~/emacs-and-org-init.org:

#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(message "test")
#+end_src

~/.emacs:

(package-initialize)
(require 'ob-tangle)
(org-babel-load-file "~/emacs-and-org-init.org")

Start from this setup and add things incrementally until stuff breaks (hopefully it will not:)).

By the way, you can get cl-member by (require 'cl), if this comes up.