Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] auctex-11.81 to 11.83 gets "void-variable AUCTeX-version"

[David Kastrup]

Please don't reply to my private mail address instead of the list.  I
am not the only developer of AUCTeX.

Fred Krogh <address@hidden> writes:

> David Kastrup wrote:
>> Fred Krogh <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>   
>>> When editing a tex file I get an error message "void-variable
>>> AUCTeX-version", and the usual highlighting is not there.  This
>>> problem occurs for auctex versions 11.81, 11.82, and 11.83. I'm
>>> running gentoo on a dual opteron system, and would be happy to help
>>> track this down, given some guidance.  Thanks,
>>>     
>>
>> My guess is that either you or gentoo foul up the load process, maybe
>> with (require 'tex-site).  Read the INSTALL file in order to figure
>> out how AUCTeX should be activated.
>>   
> I guess this was a good guess.  After looking all over the place I
> thought perhaps you were indicating that I should not be using
> (require 'tex-site).  Initially I thought you were indicating that it
> should be there.  Anyway after commenting this line out, I'm not
> getting any complaints.  So thank you very much, I would never have
> done this without your comments.

You still need to load auctex, like described in INSTALL (unless this
is done by gentoo's package itself).

> To make a very long story short, after this preview latex was still
> not working and after much misguided effort I finally saw that
> tex-site.el was newer than tex-site.elc.  After fixing this

Hopefully by deleting tex-site.elc.

> and putting (require 'tex-site) back in all seems to work.

Sigh.  The INSTALL file and its instructions are there for a reason.

> The only problem now is that I'm error messages on start up
>
> Warning: no fonts matching
> -*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1' available [2 times]
> Warning: no fonts matching
> -*-*-medium-r-normal-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1' available
> Warning: no fonts matching `-*-*-*-r-normal-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1'
> available
> Warning: no fonts matching `-*-*-*-*-normal-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1'
> available
> Warning: no fonts matching `-*-*-*-*-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1'
> available [2 times]
>
> I've tried to find fonts (installed a couple) on the gentoo site which
> would provide the missing fonts, but without success.  It seems
> unlikely to me that these missing fonts are responsible for the
> problem, but I'm feeling over my head on this.

If that happens only with AUCTeX, it is likely something related to
the font locking.  I have no expertise in that area.  Anybody else?

> P.S. Did you know that the spell checker in Thunderbird would like
> to replace Kastrup with Strumpets as its first choice!

I won't go into family history here.

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