Re: [AUCTeX] auctex installation fails under Mac OS X 10.4 and xemacs

[David Kastrup]

Artemio Gonzalez Lopez <address@hidden> writes:

> Installation of the latest CVS auctex in Mac OS 10.4 fails at the
> install phase with the following error message:
>
> Wrote /Users/artemio/.xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/auctex/custom-load.elc
> Updating metadata for the directory
> /Users/artemio/.xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/auctex/...
> Updating autoloads for the directory
> /Users/artemio/.xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/auctex/...
>
> xemacs exiting.
> Symbol's function definition is void:
> update-autoloads-from-directorymake[1]: *** [install-metadata] Error
> 255
> make: *** [install] Error 2

Please report bugs with M-x TeX-submit-bug-report RET if possible.  If
not, at least include all relevant version numbers.  Otherwise it will
become hard to guess that you are using a very recent CVS version of
XEmacs-21.5 or so.

> Before that, there are several non-fatal warnings like the following:
>
> ./mkinstalldirs /Users/artemio/.xemacs/xemacs-packages/etc/auctex
> make[1]: execvp: ./mkinstalldirs: Permission denied
> make[1]: [install-nosearch] Error 127 (ignored)
>
> This is strange, because /Users/artemio/.xemacs/xemacs-packages/etc/
> is writable by me (artemio). The installation steps I followed were
> the following:

This sounds more like ./mkinstalldirs could not be executed.  Take a
look at its first line: do you have a shell with the given path name?
Is its executable bit set?


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