[AUCTeX] AUCTeX, MSYS and Vista

[Ciaran Taylor]

Hi

I'm posting this in case it's useful to users of Windows Vista who now 
need to use MSYS to install the latest AUCTeX. I downloaded the 
precompiled Emacs 22.1 for windows together with AUCTeX 11.85.  I used 
MSYS to install AUCTeX on my PC at work (which runs Windows XP) without 
a hitch.  On my new PC at home (which runs Windows Vista), I had no 
problems with Emacs 22.1 but when I came to install AUCTeX, configure 
and make were fine, but make install didn't get very far without being 
denied permission. I tried fiddling with permissions on various 
programs, but nothing worked.  Then I tried enabling the Administrator 
account and installing from there:  problem solved! (A bit of Googling 
had produced this idea (among others which didn't work) and very 
different ways to implement it. I chose the easiest.)

Ciaran Taylor.