Re: [AUCTeX-devel] problems with make install for auctex-11.84 with XEmacs on WinXP

[Ralf Angeli]

* Daniel Winkelmann (2007-12-20) writes:

> during the installation of XEmacs I also checked the box for AUCTeX but 
> when I opened a *.tex file the LaTeX and Command menus didn't appear in 
> XEmacs.

This is not a big loss since the version of AUCTeX distributed with
XEmacs is ancient anyway.

> I downloaded auctex-11.84.zip and followed the instructions as best I 
> could to install with configure and make in a cygwin bash:
>
> address@hidden /cygdrive/d/auctex-11.84
> $ 
> ./configure --prefix="D:\\XEmacs" 
> --with-xemacs="/cygdrive/d/XEmacs/XEmacs-21.4.21/i586-pc-win32/xemacs.exe" 
>  --with-packagedir="D:\\XEmacs\\xemacs-packages" 
> --with-auctexstartfile="auctex.el" 
>  --disable-preview

Not sure if this is the cause, but using forward slashes instead of
backslashes is usually safer.

> configure ran without problems 
>  (using --with-xemacs="D:\\XEmacs\\Xemacs-21.4.21\\i586-pc-win32\\xemacs.exe" 
> did not work)

What means "did not work"?

> make also ran without problems
>
> but make install in the end (how far from the and am I?) produced the 
> following error message
>
> make[1]: *** [install-metadata] Error 255
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/d/auctex-11.84'
> make: *** [install] Error 2

What does the output show just before the error?  Can you debug which
command in the `install-metadata' target fails?

> Still no LaTeX nor Commands menus, LaTeX mode works, so I have syntax 
> higlighting and I can call pdflatex as a shell command but AUCTeX should 
> give me much more, right?

Right.

> cygwin with non-cygwin xemacs is a problem ? yes, at least in my case 
> but I couldn't tell you why. Maybe you can tell me.
>
> ok, so I try MSYS
>
> here --with-xemacs="D:\\XEmacs\\Xemacs-21.4.21\\i586-pc-win32\\xemacs.exe"
> and  --with-xemacs="D:/XEmacs/Xemacs-21.4.21/i586-pc-win32/xemacs.exe"
> both work and I hope that my problems will be gone, but  the last lines 
> of make install RET read:
>
> Generating autoloads for tex-info.el...
> Generating autoloads for tex-jp.el...
> Unbalanced parentheses
> xemacs exiting
> .
> make[1]: *** [install-metadata] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/d/auctex-11.84'
> make: *** [install] Error 2
>
> my fault or not ? any help is appreciated

Hm, does your XEmacs claim to have MULE support?  When you run
`configure' there is somewhere output like "checking for MULE
support".  What's the result of this test?

-- 
Ralf