Re: [AUCTeX] configure: error: LaTeX not found

[Andrea]

Hi,

Thanks for your answer and sorry for the late feedback.

 

In fact I still had the same problem even with adding TeX Live to my PATH.

> $ echo $PATH
> /usr/lib/lightdm/lightdm:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/texlive/2012/bin/x86_64-linux

> $ sudo ./configure 
> [sudo] password for andrea: 
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> checking for make... make
> checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
> checking for date in ChangeLog... 2010-02-21
> checking for release in ChangeLog... 11.86
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> checking for emacs... /usr/bin/emacs
> checking if /usr/bin/emacs is XEmacs... no
> checking for Emacs prefix... "/usr"
> checking if Emacs is recent enough... yes
> checking for MULE support... yes
> checking if build directory is valid... yes
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> checking where lisp files go... ${datadir}/emacs/site-lisp
> checking what file to use for auctex startup... ${datadir}/emacs/site-lisp/auctex.el
> checking where the package lisp files go... ${datadir}/emacs/site-lisp/auctex
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> checking where the data files go... ${datadir}/emacs/site-lisp/auctex
> checking where the info files go... ${datarootdir}/info
> checking where automatically generated global style hooks go... ${localstatedir}/auctex
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> checking for tex... /usr/bin/tex
> checking for pdftex... /usr/bin/pdftex
> checking for dvips... /usr/bin/dvips
> checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
> checking for makeinfo... :
> checking for texi2html... :
> checking for texi2dvi... :
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> checking for texi2pdf... :
> checking for install-info... /usr/sbin/install-info
> configure: creating ./config.status
> config.status: creating Makefile
> config.status: creating tex-site.el.out
> config.status: creating doc/Makefile
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> config.status: creating auctex.el
> === configuring in preview (/usr/local/src/auctex/auctex-11.86/preview)
> configure: running /bin/bash ./configure --disable-option-checking '--prefix=/usr/local'  --cache-file=/dev/null --srcdir=.
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> checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
> checking for /usr/bin/emacs... /usr/bin/emacs
> checking if /usr/bin/emacs is XEmacs... no
> checking for Emacs prefix... "/usr"
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> checking if Emacs is recent enough... yes
> checking if build directory is valid... yes
> checking where lisp files go... ${datadir}/emacs/site-lisp
> checking what file to use for preview startup... ${datadir}/emacs/site-lisp/preview-latex.el
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> checking where the package lisp files go... ${datadir}/emacs/site-lisp/auctex
> checking where the data files go... ${datadir}/emacs/site-lisp/auctex
> checking for the location of AUCTeX's tex-site.el... ..
> checking for gs... gs
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> checking for latex... NONE
> configure: error: LaTeX not found, aborting!
> You must install LaTeX for preview to work.
> configure: error: ./configure failed for preview

 

About symlinks, I didn't explicitly ask TeX Live to install this way, I just ran the default install-tl Perl script.

 

Anyway I finally solved the problem using the equivs package as explained here:
http://blogs.ethz.ch/ubuntu/2011/03/14/tex-live-2010-installation/

- Andrea

2012/7/30 Axel E. Retif <address@hidden>

On 07/29/2012 11:34 AM, Andrea PIERRÉ wrote:

I'm trying to install AucTeX from source but I remain stuck at the
./configure step...

I have basically the same configuration as yours ---Ubuntu 12.04, Emacs 23.3 from distro repository, TeXLive 2012 and AUCTeX from CVS.

(The difference is that I also have TeXLive 2009 from Ubuntu ---Debian--- repository to satisfy dependencies and Emacs 24.1 from gnu.org, which I compiled in $HOME/bin. In both Emacs ---23 and 24--- I installed AUCTeX.)

Now ---from what I see here

[...]

    checking for tex... /usr/bin/tex
    checking for pdftex... /usr/bin/pdftex
    checking for dvips... /usr/bin/dvips

when you installed TeXLive 2012 you asked it to install symlinks in /usr/bin, which I don't do and I think is in general not a good practice. But anyway, the strange thing is that LaTeX is not found:

[...]

    checking for latex... NONE
    configure: error: LaTeX not found, aborting!

(it is the configuration of preview-latex that checks for LaTeX); and even stranger that the command line does indeed find LaTeX:

[...]

Which I don't understand because LaTeX seems to be working normally, for
example when I run latex sample2e.tex, I get:

    This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-1.40.13 (TeX Live 2012)

As I *prepend* TeXLive 2012 to my PATH (I don't use symlinks in /usr/bin), the config.log of AUCTeX has, for example,

    > configure:2841: checking for pdftex
    > configure:2859: found /usr/local/texlive/2012/bin/x86_64-linux/pdftex

and the config.log of preview-latex

    > configure:2612: checking for latex
    > configure:2630: found /usr/local/texlive/2012/bin/x86_64-linux/latex

So, what I think you should do is *prepend* /usr/local/texlive/2012/bin/<your-arch>-linux to your $PATH. I do it in /etc/environment:

PATH="/usr/local/texlive/2012/bin/x86_64-linux:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games"

with the “disadvantage” that I have to `` sudo su '' to use tlmgr to update. The other way is to put TL 2012 path in your ~.bashrc, as suggested in Jim's link.

You have to log out or restart once you have set TL 2012 path as desired.

The equivs trick is to satisfy dependencies for packages (e.g, Kile) installed via apt-get or Synaptic, but it's not needed to install AUCTeX from CVS.


Best

Axel