[AUCTeX] Failure to install AUCTeX under Windows XT

[Richard Upward]

I have used AUCTeX under Windows 98/2000 successfully for several years and it 
is a great package.  But I am struggling to install AUCTeX 11.55 under Emacs  
21.3 on my new Windows XP machine.  I think perhaps the installation procedure 
has become more complicated?

I have installed Emacs and the MSYS program (successfully, I think).  I have 
downloaded and unpacked the auctex-11.53 files to the c:/temp directory.

I then typed this in the MSYS shell:

$ ./configure --prefix="c:/Program Files/emacs-21.3" --with-emacs="c:/Program 
Files/emacs-21.3/bin/runemacs.exe"

and I get the following message:

--
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/install -c
checking for c:/Program... c:/Program Files/emacs-21.3/bin/runemacs.exe
checking if c:/Program Files/emacs-21.3/bin/runemacs.exe is XEmacs... cat: 
./conftest-2440: No such file or directory
configure: error: Unable to run c:/Program Files/emacs-21.3/bin/runemacs.exe!  
Aborting!
--

I have tried various different commands, each time altering the value of 
"with-emacs" but to no success.  I have checked that runemacs.exe is definitely 
in c:/Program Files/emacs-21.3/bin/

Can you shed any light on what is going wrong?  Sorry to bother you and thanks 
for your time.

Richard

Richard Upward
School of Economics
University of Nottingham
University Park
Nottingham NG7 2RD
Tel: +44 (0) 115 95 14735

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/economics/staff/details/richard_upward.html


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