[AUCTeX] Re: 'macros.texi' missing in snapshots?

[Franz Haeuslschmid]

David Kastrup writes:

> Franz Haeuslschmid <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> David Kastrup writes:
>>
>>> Uwe Siart <address@hidden> writes:
>>>
>>>> David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> Please provide more context around the error message so that we can
>>>>> see what command gets run with what options when the problem occurs.
>>>>
>>>> Is this enough? There comes quite a bunch of messages ...
>>>>
>>>> %% ---8<---8<---8<---8<---8<---8<---
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>> make[2]: Entering directory `/c/temp/auctex-20050606-a/preview/doc'
>>>> /bin/texi2dvi -I ${TEXIPWD}../../doc preview-latex.texi
>>>> This is TeX, Version 3.141592 (MiKTeX 2.4)
>>>> (c:/temp/auctex-20050606-a/preview/doc/preview-latex.texi
>>>> (C:\programme\texmf\tex\texinfo\base\texinfo.tex
>>>> Loading texinfo [version 2005-03-21.17]: Basics, pdf, fonts, page headings,
>>>> tables, conditionals, indexing, sectioning, toc, environments, defuns, 
>>>> macros,
>>>> cross references, insertions, 
>>>> (C:\programme\texmf\tex\generic\dvips\epsf.tex)
>>>> localization, and turning on texinfo input format.)
>>>> ! I can't find file `macros.texi'.
>>>> %% ---8<---8<---8<---8<---8<---8<---
>>>
>>> Does /c/temp/auctex-20050606-a/doc/macros.texi exist?
>>
>> It looks odd that ${TEXIPWD} does not get expanded.
>
> I'd expect it to get expanded to an empty string by the shell.
>
> Isn't that happening?

Quite true.

Hm.  I just looked over the respective Makefile and observed, how
TEXIPWD is used:

,----
| TEXINFOINCLUDES=-I $${TEXIPWD}../../doc
`----

By escaping `$', the evaluation of variable TEXIPWD is up to the
executing shell (I think).  This means, if there is some purpose
of setting TEXIPWD, the user is responsible for setting this
environment variable.  However, I have no clue, why the extension
of that variable has to be retarded.  OK, there is the
possibility to discard changes to that variable by make itself.

Anyway, I suppose `/bin/texi2dvi' fails to pass the texinfo
include path to TeX (MiKTeX) in a form, that is understood by
TeX.  I'd try to use MiKTeX's texi2dvi.

Franz.