Re: [AUCTeX] problems with 'make install' in 11.81

[Michal Jaegermann]

On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 12:39:09PM +0200, Ralf Angeli wrote:
> * Michal Jaegermann (2005-10-22) writes:
> 
> > There is a problem with Makefiles in auctex-11.81.
....
> 
> Are you possibly searching for the --with-texmf-dir or
> --with-tex-dir/--with-doc-dir configuration options?

All configuration options used were listed in an attached spec file.
They happen to be:

        --with-emacs \
        --with-auctex-startfile=auctex.el \
        --with-preview-startfile=preview-latex.el \
        --with-texmf-dir=%{_datadir}/texmf

with the last line carried over from a spec file for auctex-11.53-1.
Admittedly I was not thinking about it too much.

You are right that changing these to

        --with-emacs \
        --with-auctex-startfile=auctex.el \
        --with-preview-startfile=preview-latex.el

or even just to '--with-emacs', regardless of hints in INSTALL, will
work in my context just fine without any need of intervention into
makefiles.  Still is somewhat nasty that explicitely stating a
default has such undesirable side-effects; besides somebody could
want to recompile things with a different layout.

One more thing about this spec file I attached in the original
message.  Older versions were creating in %post scripts an
auctex-init.el startup file, or it could have been just added "by
hand".  Now this name has changed.  Therefore it is likely a good
idea to add in a %pre script of auctex-11.81 something of that sort:

  oldinit=/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/auctex-init.el
  [ -f $oldinit ] && mv $oldinit $oldinit.bak

or equivalent.

   Michal