Re: «catastrophe»: cannot compile auctex from main any more: error: Symbol’s value as variable is void: AUCTeX-version

[Arash Esbati]

Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:

> I am using mercurial and the hg-git plugin and there have been problems
> in the past for me compiling, but I just pulled (and upgraded Emacs to
> 29.4)
>
> While I can compile 
> commit c77c97ab6b4096e29a
>
> (22 August)
>
> I cannot compile the latest commit 
> 14de1605acdfaedda
>
> Running make -j
>
> Gives  me the following error, in basically all el file
>
> style/transparent.el:32:2: Error: Symbol’s value as variable is void: 
> AUCTeX-version
> make: *** [GNUmakefile:95: style/transparent.elc] Error 1
>
> Since I use auctex for my daily work, I wrote catastrophe!
> I could bisect the issue, but I presume somebody more familiar with the
> code will spot the problem quickly

Maybe it comes from commit 2c0774281c.  So maybe you bisect to that
commit and see what happens; also running "make clean"?

While we're at it: Why don't you install AUCTeX from ELPA-devel[1]?  It
should really help with your non-Git setup and all the issues you're
facing.

Best, Arash

Footnotes:
[1] https://elpa.gnu.org/devel/doc/auctex.html#Using-AUCTeX-from-ELPA_002ddevel