Re: [AUCTeX-devel] problems with make install for auctex-11.84 with XEmacs on WinXP

[Daniel Winkelmann]

Ralf Angeli wrote:
> > and I ran configure again with MSYS
> > ./configure --prefix="D:/XEmacs"
> > --with-xemacs="D:/XEmacs/XEmacs-21.4.21/i586-pc-win32/xemacs.exe"
> >  --with-packagedir="D:/XEmacs/site-packages"
> > --with-auctexstartfile="auctex.el"
> >   --disable-preview
> >
> > again configure and make worked without complaint but make install
> > finishes with the same errors but not the "unbalanced parentheses"
>
> How can it finish with the same errors if the error about unbalanced
> parentheses is missing?

Sorry, my mistake for not being precise enough, it finishes with the 
same error-messages (not comprehensible to me: Error 1 and Error 2 as 
reported) but obviously a bit farther down the line.


> > and when I open a *.tex document with Xemacs I now do get the menus.
> > I
> > dont' kow yet if other things will fail to work because install
> > didn't
> > finish.
>
> Me neither.  But you should stay clear of UTF-8 files with a no-MULE
> XEmacs.

It was not obvious to me that the file I downloaded from xemacs.org

XEmacs_Setup_21.4.21.exe

would be UTF-8 and no-MULE,  neither do I know what that means and 
implies as consequences.

> > should I run make install again?
>
> You will likely get the same errors, so I doubt this will help.
>
> > should I send you config.log ?
>
> Yes, it might give some hints.
>
> > install
> > doesn't seem to write a log and I don't know how to  cut and paste
> > out
> > of  the MSYS window.
>
> You can use `tee' to redirect the output to a file.  I currently don't
> have time to look up the syntax, nor do I know if it is included in
> MSYS.  Especially the error messages at the bottom are essential for
> debugging.  Without those config.log will not help much.

ok, tee is available but didn't write all the lines into the install.log 
I created with

make install | tee install.log

the last 30 lines (about 300) where shown in the MSYS window but not in 
the log. Please tell me if you really want all 300 lines, here are the 
last 11 lines:

8<---------------------
Generating autoloads for toolbar-x.el...
Wrote d:\XEmacs\site-packages\lisp\auctex\auto-autoloads.el
Mark set
Wrote d:\XEmacs\site-packages\lisp\auctex\auto-autoloads.el
Compiling d:\XEmacs\site-packages\lisp\auctex\auto-autoloads.el...
Compiling auto-autoloads.el... (TeX-modes-set)
Compiling d:\XEmacs\site-packages\lisp\auctex\auto-autoloads.el...done
Wrote d:\XEmacs\site-packages\lisp\auctex\auto-autoloads.elc
make[1]: *** [install-metadata] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/d/auctex-11.84'
make: *** [install] Error 2


> BTW, if you want to be sure to have a fully working AUCTeX, you could
> download the AUCTeX XEmacs package from the AUCTeX homepage and simply
> drop this into your package tree.  This will spare you the hassles of
> configuring and building.

I didn't find an AUCTeX-XEmacs package for MS Windows (winXP in my 
case).

I will report any misfunctions I'll observe with more use of my 
XEmacs-AUCTeX installation  in 2008, for the time being, happy holidays 
!

Daniel