Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] images for preview

[Tassilo Horn]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

Hi David,

in general I agree with all you've said.

> AUCTeX has _excellent_ installation instructions and mechanisms
> covering a _variety_ of different needs.  I have not seen any evidence
> that the available mechanisms and/or their documentation are
> insufficient for using AUCTeX.

Currently, a single user install as you've suggested yesterday doesn't
seem to work.  With

  $ ./autogen.sh
  $ ./configure --prefix="$HOME"

the generated Makefile still contains many system directories where
"make install" tries to install files.

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
prefix = /home/horn$(null)
exec_prefix = ${prefix}$(null)
libdir = ${exec_prefix}/lib$(null)
packagedatadir = /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex$(null)
datarootdir = ${prefix}/share$(null)
datadir = ${datarootdir}$(null)
localstatedir = ${prefix}/var$(null)
infodir = ${datarootdir}/info$(null)
lispdir = /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp$(null)
auctexstartfile=/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex.el
packagelispdir = /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex$(null)
packagedatadir = /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex$(null)
packagedir = no$(null)
autodir = ${localstatedir}/auctex$(null)
preview_enabled=yes
subdirs= preview
styledir = $(packagedatadir)/style
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

This might be due to

,----[ (info "(auctex)Configure") ]
|      Only if no workable placement can be found there, in some cases an
|      alternative search will be made in a prefix deduced from a suitable
|      binary.
`----

but then it should explain what hierarchy it expects in HOME.

Bye,
Tassilo