Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] 11.84; TeX-next-error in PDFLaTeX brings up supp-pdf.tex

[Patrick Drechsler]

Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:

> * Patrick Drechsler (2007-05-11) writes:
>
>> Would you say that the following is a correct procedure for checking
>> out a current auctex version?
>>
>> ,----
>> | *** Installation CVS                               
>> :emacs:auctex:install:cvs:
>> |     1. Download
>> |        :mkdir /usr/local/src/auctex-devel
>> |        :cd /usr/local/src/auctex-devel
>> |        :cvs -z3 -d:pserver:address@hidden:/sources/auctex co auctex
>
> Above you are writing about "checking out".  I'm not sure if you
> mean "test" or "check out from CVS".

Sorry for being unclear about this. I meant "check out from CVS".

> In the latter case all you need is the `cvs ...' command.  The stuff
> below is not necessary.

OK, thanks for telling me this. The reason I included the stuff below
was that the README.CVS states:

,----[ README.CVS ]
| If you retrieved AUCTeX via CVS instead of as a regular release,
| there are some files that need to be generated from their respective
| source files before you can continue reasonably with the
| instructions detailed in the README and INSTALL files (which will
| not be present otherwise).
|
| Run the shell script
| 
|     ./autogen.sh
| 
| in order to do that.  This will also generate the respective files
| for the preview subsystem.
`----

>> |     2. Read README.CVS and INSTALL and comply:
>> |        :./autogen.sh
>> |     3. Configure
>> |        * with use of emacs23:
>> |             :./configure 
>> --with-emacs=/usr/local/src/emacs23/emacs/src/emacs 
>> --with-lispdir=/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp --infodir=/usr/local/info
>> |        * with standard emacs:
>> |             :./configure
>
> I don't know about your setup, so it's difficult to comment.
[...]

My setup includes a view non-standard installations, but I also tested
the second option (calling configure without options) and it works
fine.

>> |     4. No errors? Fine, then:
>> |        :make
>
> `make install' is missing.

Yes, I forgot that point in the instruction, thanks for the pointer.

>> Or is there a better way of installing the AUCTeX-CVS version
>> side-by-side to the current stable version which might only imply
>> changing the path in my ~/.emacs for switching between the two?
>
> You could compile different AUCTeX versions with the Emacs with the
> lowest version number into separate directories not in load-path and
> add only one of those directories to load-path upon start-up.
> Personally I would not bother with a parallel installation.

Understood.

Thank you for the feedback on this,

Patrick