Re: [AUCTeX-devel] GNU emacs: 24.4.1 auctex 11.88: installation problem: style files

[David Kastrup]

Uwe Brauer <address@hidden> writes:

>> Uwe Brauer <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I don't think that we have installation instructions telling you not to
>> run "make install".  Did you take a look at the installation
>> instructions?  They are in the manual and should also be available as a
>> separate text file called INSTALL.
>
>
> The following configure option lead to a successful
> make and
> make install
> ./configure --with-emacs=/opt/emacs24/bin/emacs
> --prefix=/home/oub/ALLES/
> --with-lispdir=/home/oub/emacs/site-lisp/packages/auctex-11.88
> --without-texmf-dir
>
> The problem is I set in the init file
>
> (setq load-path (cons (expand-file-name
> "~/emacs/site-lisp/packages/auctex-11.88") load-path))
> (setq load-path (cons (expand-file-name
> "~/emacs/site-lisp/packages/auctex-11.88/auctex") load-path))
>
>
> But then again have the style file problem. All the files like beamer.el
> are not found and the relevant commands of course neither.
>
> I am getting desperate.

When all else fails, read the instructions.  I quote from INSTALL:

6 Installation for non-privileged users
***************************************

Often people without system administration privileges want to install
software for their private use.  In that case you need to pass more
options to the `configure' script.  For XEmacs users, this is fairly
easy, because the XEmacs package system has been designed to make this
sort of thing practical: but GNU Emacs users (and XEmacs users for whom
the package system is for some reason misbehaving) may need to do a
little more work.

   The main expedient is using the `--prefix' option to the `configure'
script, and let it point to the personal home directory.  In that way,
resulting binaries will be installed under the `bin' subdirectory of
your home directory, manual pages under `man' and so on.  It is
reasonably easy to maintain a bunch of personal software, since the
prefix argument is supported by most `configure' scripts.

   You'll have to add something like
`/home/myself/share/emacs/site-lisp' to your `load-path' variable, if
it isn't there already.

   XEmacs users can achieve the same end by pointing `configure' at an
appropriate package directory (normally
`--with-packagedir=~/.xemacs/xemacs-packages' will serve).  The package
directory stands a good chance at being detected automatically as long
as it is in a subtree of the specified PREFIX.


and:

4 Loading the package
*********************

You can detect the successful activation of AUCTeX and preview-latex in
the menus after loading a LaTeX file like `preview/circ.tex': AUCTeX
then gives you a `Command' menu, and preview-latex gives you a
`Preview' menu.

   For XEmacs, if the installation occured into a valid package
directory (which is the default), then this should work out of the box.


What you did instead does not appear to match those instructions.

-- 
David Kastrup