Re: Failed to install auctex from within Emacs with straight.

[David Kastrup]

Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 2:48 PM Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> > I'm on Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS, and use straight [1] as the Emacs package
>> > manager. Now, I try to install auctex from within Emacs with straight,
>> > but it always freezes at the configure stage.  I describe the detailed
>> > test steps as follows.
>>
>> I've never used straight.el but the first thing I'd try was running
>> ./configure in the checkout made by straight.el.  Does that finish?
>>
>> Then I'd try something like
>>
>>   (let ((default-directory "~/auctex-checkout"))
>>     (call-process "~/auctex-checkout/configure" nil "*configure-output*" t))
>
> I do another similar but more simple test, i.e., `C-x C-e' the
> following code in *scratch* buffer:
>
>  (let ((default-directory "~/auctex"))
>     (call-process "ls ~/auctex/configure" nil "*configure-output*" t))

That's not more simple but more complex.  call-process requires an
_executable_ filename as argument, not a shell command.

-- 
David Kastrup