Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Re: [AUCTeX] Problem with Auctex Preview on Fedora

[David Kastrup]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

> Christophe FARGES <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> document, I have the LaTeX and Preview menus, etc... But when I try to
>> preview the document, I get the following error:
>> " Display geometry unavailable: Symbol's function definition is void:
>> display-pixel-width"
>> or:
>> "Symbol's function definition is void: previous-single-char-property-change"
>> The same document opens fine on my laptop.
>>
>> My computer knowledge is quite low, but if you can give me some
>> explanations on how to make it work, that would be fine...
>
> The files prv-xemacs.el and preview.el have been compiled with an
> incompatible version of XEmacs seemingly, a developer version that
> _has_ those functions available.
>
> Quite unfortunate.  Since our XEmacs packages are supposed to also run
> under XEmacs 21.4, it would be prudent to have them created using
> 21.4.  Reiner?

If this is indeed the case, one solution would be to have the
compatibility functions compiled into our XEmacs port unconditionally.
I am checking a patch in that is supposed to achieve this.

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