Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] preview-1.287; Installation warns about impossibilities

[Tassilo Horn]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

Hi David,

> When installing I get a warning message
>
> Please read the PROBLEMS file if you use
> a) AUCTeX with a version less than 11.0
> b) GNU Emacs with a version less than 21.2
>    OR XEmacs with a version less than 21.4.9
> c) Ghostscript with a version less than 6.51
>
> In particular the AUCTeX version warning is overly pessimistic
> considering that preview-latex is distributed as part of AUCTeX since
> version 11.50 or so.

So what would you suggest?

> It also does not help that there is no PROBLEMS file in the tree, even
> after installation.  While there is a file doc/preview-problems.texi,
> there is no file PROBLEMS being generated, most probably because
> doc/Makefile.in does not contain ../PROBLEMS in the DISTTEXTS
> variable.

Indeed, I've fixed that.

> As a note aside (not belonging to this problem report), the last
> commit "Better check for DBUS support." broke the build for me, even
> after updating to the newest Emacs.

Ups, yes, fixed.

Bye,
Tassilo