Re: [AUCTeX] auctex 11.81 "make install" failure on winXP

[David Kastrup]

Arnaud Legout <address@hidden> writes:

> Ralf Angeli wrote:
>> I just saw that it does not make a difference.  The tex-mik.el we are
>> currently shipping requires tex-site.el as well.  Sorry, I thought we
>> removed that.
>>
>> Problem is that no tex-site.el is installed in case of XEmacs with the
>> current version of AUCTeX.  So you should be fine removing the line
>> `(require 'tex-site)' from tex-mik.el and I propose to do the same in
>> AUCTeX proper.
>>
>>   
> now XEmacs starts without error, but I don't have AUCTex activated (at
> least I think so, no menu, C-c C-c not known)
> I have
> (require 'tex-mik)
> (setq TeX-auto-save t)
> (setq TeX-parse-self t)
> (setq-default TeX-master t)
>
> in init.el
>
> If I add
> (load "auctex.el" nil t t)
> I got an:
> Error in init file: Cannot open load file: auctex.el
>
> It looks like no so easy to install on XEmacs.

Ah right.  It was automatically loaded in XEmacs, via an appropriately
named startup file.

It is not like the installation instructions don't tell you:

4 Loading the package
*********************

You can detect the successful activation of AUCTeX and preview-latex in
the menus after loading a LaTeX file like `preview/circ.tex': AUCTeX
then gives you a `Command' menu, and preview-latex gives you a
`Preview' menu.

   For XEmacs, if the installation occured into a valid package
directory (which is the default), then this should work out of the box.

   With Emacs (or if you explicitly disabled use of the package system),
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