Re: [AUCTeX] [Luis A Escobar] failed to install AUCTeX in Windows XP

[Ralf Angeli]

* Luis A. Escobar (2005-11-09) writes:

> Ralf: thank you taking time to help me.
>
>   I tried the snapshot you suggested, I got the same problem
>   Here you have the very few last lines where the errors in the make
>   are reported
[...]
> make[2]: Entering directory `/c/temp/auctexcurrent/preview/latex'
> /c/PROGRA\~1/XEmTeX/bin/win32/tex '\nonstopmode \input bootstrap.ins'
> make[2]: /c/PROGRA\~1/XEmTeX/bin/win32/tex: Command not found

It's not exactly the same problem because compared to the error you
got with AUCTeX 11.81 there is only one backslash before the ~1 and
not two.  But this still is one too much.

Can anybody tell me why we are quoting ~ anyway?  The bash I am having
here handles ~ inside strings quite nicely (no expansion).  Are there
other shells which fail on such things?

> What is the file that is looking for? tex.exe? If so, then that
> file is there.

Well, that doesn't help if the installation routine cannot handle ~ in
paths correctly.

-- 
Ralf