Re: [AUCTeX] Compiling auctex as simple user from CVS

[Ralf Angeli]

* Damien Cassou (2007-09-17) writes:

> I'm trying to install Auctex as a simple user with no root privileges.
>
> $ ./autogen.sh
> $ ./configure --prefix=/home/twinoatl/opt/auctex
> $ make
> $ make install
[...]
> Overwriting old tex-site.el
> if test Xno = Xno; \
>         then /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 tex-site.el
> /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp ; \
>         else rm -f /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/tex-site.el ; \
>         fi
> /usr/bin/install: can't remove
> `/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/tex-site.el': non authorized
> make: *** [install-el] Error 1
>
>
>
> There is probably a way to tell configure not to do that, but I think
> this is a wrong behavior.

What's the output of
autoconf --version
on the system you tried that?

-- 
Ralf