Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] Re: [AUCTeX] auctex installation fails under Mac OS X 10.4 and xemacs

[Ralf Angeli]

* David Kastrup (2005-05-19) writes:

> Artemio Gonzalez Lopez <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> xemacs exiting.
>> Symbol's function definition is void: update-autoloads-from- 
>> directorymake[1]: *** [install-metadata] Error 255
>> make: *** [install] Error 2
[...]
>       * autoload.el (update-autoloads-from-directory): Removed.
[...]
> If anybody has a clue what we should use for replacing this, or wants
> to investigate, this would be appreciated.

The doc string of `update-autoloads-from-directory' before it was
deleted contained the statement

  "You don't really want to be calling this function.  Try using         
  `update-autoload-files' instead."

And this function also accepts directories as argument:

  (defun update-autoload-files (files-or-dirs feature-prefix
                                &optional into-file force)
    "Update all the autoload files associated with FILES-OR-DIRS.
  FILES-OR-DIRS is a list of files and/or directories to be processed.

  An appropriate autoload file is chosen and a feature constructed for
  each element of FILES-OR-DIRS.  Fixup code testing for the autoload file's
  feature and to provide the feature is added.

  If optional INTO-FILE is non-`nil', it should specify a file into which
  the autoloads will be placed.  Otherwise, the autoloads will be placed into
  a file named `auto-autoloads.el' in the directory of each element in
  FILES-OR-DIRS.

  FEATURE-PREFIX should be set to an appropriate prefix which will
  be concatenated with \"-autoloads\" to produce the feature name.  Otherwise
  the appropriate autoload file for each file or directory (located in that
  directory, or in the directory of the specified file) will be updated with
  the directory's or file's autoloads and the protective forms will be added,
  and the files will be saved.  Use of the default here is unreliable, and
  therefore deprecated.

  Note that if some of FILES-OR-DIRS are directories, recursion goes only
  one level deep.

  If FORCE is non-nil, always save out the autoload files even if unchanged."

So my suggestion would be something like this:

--- prv-install.el      03 May 2005 14:40:13 +0200      1.10
+++ prv-install.el      20 May 2005 11:32:09 +0200      
@@ -94,7 +94,11 @@
             ((string-equal "Generating autoloads for %s...done" fmt))
             (t (apply si:message fmt args))))
     (unwind-protect
-        (update-autoloads-from-directory lisp-dir)
+       (cond ((fboundp 'update-autoloads-from-directory)
+              (update-autoloads-from-directory lisp-dir))
+             ((fboundp 'update-autoload-files)
+              (update-autoload-files '(lisp-dir)))
+             (t (error "Failed to generate autoloads.")))
       (fset 'message si:message))
     (when (file-exists-p generated-autoload-file)
       (with-temp-buffer (insert-file append-file)

But I have to say that I am not really familiar with that code and
this could well be complete nonsense.  Probably the `error' statement
is not needed because of `unwind-protect'.  Additionally I had a
hardware failure a few days ago and am currently back on the old
200MHz machine with 100MB of diskspace left.  That means neither do I
have an Emacs 21 nor an XEmacs 21.5 for testing.

-- 
Ralf