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

[Ikumi Keita]

Hi Uwe,

>>>>> Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:
> I am referring to
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/auctex-devel/2024-04/msg00107.html

I still can't get your idea. As I said, you don't have to run "make" for
ELPA-devel. The "make" process is done on the ELPA server and you just
get the cooked files locally. There will be no annoyance due to the lack
of .git directory. (You can even get rid or your mercurial repo for
AUCTeX.)

> And the thread following it might be a different but connected issue.

Are you talking about the following topics?

[1] multiple emacs version
> There is also no configure option more, since I have various emacs
> version installed (the one Ubuntu ships, the one or two I have compiled
> from master (and which end up in /opt/emacs29 or /opt/emacs30)
> So I have to to edit the makefile manually?

[2] separation of the tree
>     1. I pull, make (and would to install)

>     2. I would like to do some experiments (say starting a new style
>        file) but now I am editing files of a repository I also use for
>        my daily work. That does sound a bit dangerous.

Then,
[1] ELPA packages are installed under users' ~/.emacs.d/ directory, so
    they are common to all emacs versions. You don't have to install
    AUCTeX for each of your emacs versions. Just be sure to install it
    by your oldest version of emacs; the .elc files compiled by newer
    emacsen are not compatible for older emacsens in general.
[2] Sorry, I admit there is no "out-of-the-box" solution. I suppose the
    most feasible workflow is to copy the AUCTeX directory by "cp -r"
    into another directory and do experiments on that copy.

Regards,
Ikumi Keita
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