Re: [AUCTeX-devel] problems in gen the sumo xemacs auctex pkg

[David Kastrup]

Uwe Brauer <address@hidden> writes:

> The fun starts:
>
>
> Here is now my first problem.
> I just copied the lisp files, image files etc and run make
> and the following error occurs:
> --8<------------------------schnipp------------------------->8---
>
> backtrace(nil t)
>   # bind (error-info)
>   byte-compile-report-error((void-variable AUCTeX-version))
>   # bind (error-info)
>   #<compiled-function (error-info) "...(4)" [error-info byte-compile-report-e
> rror] 2>((void-variable AUCTeX-version))
> --8<------------------------schnapp------------------------->8---
>
> If needed I could send the complete bugtrace but I think   the problem
> is clear: AUCTeX-version seems not to be defined. 
>
> Looking at the auctex-11.82=pkg.tgz I see that this variable is
> defined in the auto-autoload.el file which is generated during make. 
>
> The auto-autoload.el which is generated by the Sumo Makfile does not
> generate this variable, I searched for it, but to accelerate the whole
> thing: could the author tell me how he generated that auto-autoload.el
> file?

Grep for prv-install.el in the Makefiles, that is the file generating
auto-autoloads.el.

It does so with
(defun preview-make-package-xemacs ()
  "Do anything required to make a package in XEmacs,
other than actually copying the Lisp files.

Generates auto-autoloads, custom-loads, and package metadata file
in the right locations.  Takes from the command line the package directory,
package name, and version (to be evaluated), followed by a file to append."

So the fourth argument to preview-make-package-xemacs names a file to
append at the end of auto-autoloads.el.

This would be (from Makefile.in):

install-metadata:
        test "x$(packagedir)" = xno || { \
          $(MKINSTALLDIRS) $(DESTDIR)$(packagedir)/pkginfo || : ; \
          $(ELCC) -l preview/prv-install -f preview-make-package 
$(DESTDIR)$(packagedir) "$(PACKAGE)" \"`echo $(AUCTEXDATE)|sed 
's/\(.*\)-\(.*\)-\(.*\)/\1.\2\3/'`\" \"$(AUCTEXVERSION)\" tex-site.el && \
          cd $(DESTDIR)$(packagedir) && \
          find "etc/$(PACKAGE)" "lisp/$(PACKAGE)" -print 
>"pkginfo/MANIFEST.$(PACKAGE)" && \
          for i in $(PACKAGE_INFO); do \
            test -r "info/$$i.info" && echo "info/$$i.info" >> 
"pkginfo/MANIFEST.$(PACKAGE)" ; \
          done && \
          echo "pkginfo/MANIFEST.$(PACKAGE)" >> "pkginfo/MANIFEST.$(PACKAGE)" ; 
\
        }

As you can see, tex-site.el is appended at the end of the autoload
data.

I hope this helps.  Yes, it is non-nice to use a procedure in the
preview subdirectory for this, but this is from the time where
preview-latex could be built stand-alone.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum