Re: [AUCTeX] how to use the git repository to obtain the latest aucTeX?

[Tassilo Horn]

Tassilo Horn <address@hidden> writes:

>> ./configure --prefix="$HOME"
>> make
>> make install
>
> Oh, and somehow the above doesn't work for me.  It still tries to access
> stuff outside my HOME.
>
> % make install
> ./mkinstalldirs /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp
> rm -f /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/tex-site.el # Remove old 
> (Git-version) mistakes
> test ! -f /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/tex-site.el || { \
>    if grep -q "tex-site.*Don't edit." /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/tex-site.el; 
> then \
>     echo "Overwriting old tex-site.el" ; \
>    else \
>     echo "Renaming old tex-site.el to tex-site.el.save" ; \
>     mv /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/tex-site.el 
> /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/tex-site.el.save ; \
>    fi; \
> }
> 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: cannot create regular file 
> ‘/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/tex-site.el’: Permission denied
> make: *** [install-el] Error 1

That has also been reported as a bug some time ago:

  address@hidden
  Message-ID: <address@hidden>
  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-auctex/2012-10/msg00002.html

It seems you can get a bit further by also specifying
--with-lispdir="$HOME/.emacs.d", but then it'll fail when trying to
install the preview stuff globally:

  mkdir -p -- /usr/share/texmf-site/tex/latex/preview
  mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/usr/share/texmf-site/tex/latex/preview’: 
Permission denied

So it doesn't seem to be as easy as advertised.

Bye,
Tassilo