[AUCTeX-devel] Re: preview-latex 0.9.1 and AUCTeX 11.whatever

[David Kastrup]

Jan-Åke Larsson <address@hidden> writes:

> David Kastrup wrote:
>> Jan-Åke Larsson <address@hidden> writes:
>>>Perhaps check for a previous installation first?
>> I don't really think this is a good idea.  
>
> OK, good.
>
>> Basically that is what I wanted to do.  A list of preferred places,
>> after all, is just a special case of a simple, well-chosen rule.
>
> Indeed. I don't think I'll have time for this tonight. Perhaps tomorrow.
> (Let me know if you start working on it)

I have done pretty much nothing at all yet, and I won't be able to do
anything today.  I just checked what has happened in my local copies
of aclocal.m4 and configure.in, and the only thing that I did not
check in was the following patch that does not achieve its purpose
well, since the prefix might need to strip bin/architecture IIRC (at
least for TeXlive and/or teTeX this is likely).

I think it would be better to create another aclocal.m4 macro that
does this job in a more general way, something like
AUCTEX_PATH_PREFIX(prefix1, prefix2, executable)
which then sets the prefix1 and prefix2 variables to the path-relative
stuff in the manner I outlined previously.

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