Re: [AUCTeX] Problem with Auctex Preview on Fedora

[Christophe FARGES]

Hello,

Thanks for your answer. I wrote a mail to the computer department so
that they run the command. I'll keep you informed if this works or not.

Thanks again,
Christophe
> Christophe FARGES <address@hidden> writes:
>
>   
> > I'm using Auctex for quite a long time now on my personal laptop
> > (cygwin+xemacs+auctex) and I especially like the preview option. At my
> > office, we have received new computers (PC on linux fedora). I asked
> > the team that manages the computers to install the latest version of
> > auctex for Xemacs. It seems to be installed fine as when I open a TEX
> > 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?
>
> Anyway, what your department can do is to run
> xemacs -batch -f batch-byte-compile prv-xemacs.el preview.el
> in the directory where those files are located.
>
> This should address the problem.
>
>