Re: [AUCTeX-devel] auctex install problems

[David Kastrup]

shoryn <address@hidden> writes:

> David Kastrup wrote:
>
>><address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>  
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>Trying to install auctex gives me the following error:
>>>
>>>$ ./configure --with-xemacs='C:\Program 
>>>Files\XEmacs\XEmacs-21.4.19\i586-pc-win
>>>32' --with-texmf-dir='C:\ltexmf'
>>>checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
>>>checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
>>>checking for date in ChangeLog... 2005-12-17
>>>checking for release in ChangeLog... 11.82
>>>checking for C:\Program... C:\Program 
>>>Files\XEmacs\XEmacs-21.4.19\i586-pc-win32
>>>checking if C:\Program Files\XEmacs\XEmacs-21.4.19\i586-pc-win32 is XEmacs...
>>>ca
>>>t: ./conftest-22180: No such file or directory
>>>configure: error: Unable to run C:\Program Files\XEmacs\XEmacs-21.4.19\
>>>i586-pc-w
>>>in32!  Aborting!
>>>
>>>Can you help me with that please.
>>>    
>>>
>>
>>C:\Program Files\XEmacs\XEmacs-21.4.19\i586-pc-win32 is not an XEmacs
>>executable, but a directory.
>>
> Thanks for answering.  But I was had no luck making it work.  I did
> change the line to point to the xemacs executable but it did not help
> (here are some of the outputs: http://pastebin.com/691397).  I tried
> relative and absolute paths, changing working directory, changing
> case, changing from back slashes to forward slashes and back: still no
> progress.  Some people on freenode suggested that it might be a
> problem with cygwin.  Do you have any other  suggestions as to how to
> make it work?

Use an absolute path and get the upper/lowercase characters correct.
What you specified does not match the output of Cygwin with regard to
the path name.

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