Re: [AUCTeX] how to use the git repository to obtain the latest aucTeX?

[Tassilo Horn]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

>>>   $ ./configure
>>>   $ make
>>> 
>>> Now you have two choices: (1) install it system-wide using "sudo
>>> make install", or (2) run it straight from the cloned directory.
>
> What's wrong with
>
> ./configure --prefix="$HOME"
> make
> make install
>
> ?

That should of course also be fine.  I prefer (2) however so that C-h f
and friends link directly to the git sources.

Oh, and somehow the above doesn't work for me.  It still tries to access
stuff outside my HOME.

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% make install
./mkinstalldirs /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp
rm -f /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/tex-site.el # Remove old (Git-version) 
mistakes
test ! -f /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/tex-site.el || { \
   if grep -q "tex-site.*Don't edit." /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/tex-site.el; 
then \
    echo "Overwriting old tex-site.el" ; \
   else \
    echo "Renaming old tex-site.el to tex-site.el.save" ; \
    mv /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/tex-site.el 
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/tex-site.el.save ; \
   fi; \
}
if test Xno = Xno; \
then /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 tex-site.el /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp ; \
else rm -f /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/tex-site.el ; \
fi
/usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file 
‘/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/tex-site.el’: Permission denied
make: *** [install-el] Error 1
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Bye,
Tassilo