Re: [AUCTeX] --without-xemacs misinterpreted?

[David Kastrup]

Jens Kubieziel <address@hidden> writes:

> I'm trying to configure CVS AUCTeX. On my local system CVS emacs sits at
> $HOME/Software/emacs. I used the following line to configure AUCTeX:
> address@hidden:~/ > ./configure --prefix=/home/jens/Software/AUCTeX \
> --with-auto-dir=/home/jens/Software/AUCTeX \
> --with-emacs=/home/jens/Software/emacs/bin/emacs \
> --with-lispdir=/home/jens/Software/emacs/share/emacs/22.0.50/site-lisp \
> --without-xemacs
>
> configure output:
> [...]
> checking for emacs... /usr/bin/emacs
> checking if /usr/bin/emacs is XEmacs... no
> [...]
> checking for glaring installation conflicts... ouch!
>
> configure: WARNING: Conflicting previous installation in
> `/usr/share/emacs/21.4/site-lisp/preview-latex/' found!
> [...]
>
> If I omit the option '--without-xemacs' configure gets the right
> emacs directory and outputs no warning about conflicting
> installations. This behaviour looks like a bug or do I miss
> something here?

--without-xemacs?  Not exactly a documented or recommended option.
I'll take a look whether it is easily possible to deal with a rather
nonsensical option like that.  Should be doable.

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