Re: [AUCTeX-devel] prbl, installation 11.84, xemacs no pkg

[David Kastrup]

Uwe Brauer <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello
>
> I just wanted to test the 11.84 installation without using the pkg
> version. 
>
> So I did 
> /configure --with-prefix=/home/oub/xemacs/site-lisp/packages
> --with-xemacs=/usr/bin/xemacs21 --without-packagedir    
>
>  make
>
>  make -n install
>
>
> However the installation wanted to install in /usr/local
>
> Things like
>
>  ./mkinstalldirs /usr/local/lib/xemacs/site-lisp/auctex
>
> Which is the wrong. That looks like a bug to me.

What is wrong about that?

> So what I did I left the compiled files in place and add the following
> paths:
>
> (push (expand-file-name "~/xemacs/site-lisp/packages/auctex-11.84") load-path)
> (push (expand-file-name "~/xemacs/site-lisp/packages/auctex-11.84/images") 
> load-path)
> (push (expand-file-name "~/xemacs/site-lisp/packages/auctex-11.84/preview") 
> load-path)
> (push (expand-file-name "~/xemacs/site-lisp/packages/auctex-11.84/style") 
> load-path)
>
> Which works fine

For a strange value of fine, I guess.  I have my doubts that icons and
style files will be found as intended.  Actually, some of them will be
found when you don't want them to be found.  The style directory is
intentionally not made part of load-path.

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