[AUCTeX] Re: 'macros.texi' missing in snapshots?

[Franz Haeuslschmid]

David Kastrup writes:

> Uwe Siart <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> Please provide more context around the error message so that we can
>>> see what command gets run with what options when the problem occurs.
>>
>> Is this enough? There comes quite a bunch of messages ...
>>
>> %% ---8<---8<---8<---8<---8<---8<---
>
> [...]
>
>> make[2]: Entering directory `/c/temp/auctex-20050606-a/preview/doc'
>> /bin/texi2dvi -I ${TEXIPWD}../../doc preview-latex.texi
>> This is TeX, Version 3.141592 (MiKTeX 2.4)
>> (c:/temp/auctex-20050606-a/preview/doc/preview-latex.texi
>> (C:\programme\texmf\tex\texinfo\base\texinfo.tex
>> Loading texinfo [version 2005-03-21.17]: Basics, pdf, fonts, page headings,
>> tables, conditionals, indexing, sectioning, toc, environments, defuns, 
>> macros,
>> cross references, insertions, (C:\programme\texmf\tex\generic\dvips\epsf.tex)
>> localization, and turning on texinfo input format.)
>> ! I can't find file `macros.texi'.
>> %% ---8<---8<---8<---8<---8<---8<---
>
> Does /c/temp/auctex-20050606-a/doc/macros.texi exist?

It looks odd that ${TEXIPWD} does not get expanded.  Actually, I
had a similar problem on cygwin: I realized that TeX (part of
MiKTeX) was receiving path definitions, that it could not handle
properly. I then removed the texinfo package from my cygwin
environment and was happy to see that MiKTeX's own `texi2dvi'
implementation worked just fine.

HTH,
Franz.