Re: [Brett Presnell] Re: Fedora Core 3: File mode specification error
Ralf Angeli <[email protected]>
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* Brett Presnell (2005-01-20) writes: > David Kastrup <[email protected]> writes: >> >> We have had several reports of AUCTeX bombing out under Fedora Core 3. >> It turns out that the Emacspeak package is at fault here by bundling >> an utterly outdated version of regexp-opt.el. > > Wait. I meant to mention this in my last message but I hit send too > soon. I had checked, and the version of emacspeak that FC3 includes > is very old. The most recent version of emacspeak (downloaded from > its homepage) does not inlude its own copy of regexp-opt. > > So the problem is not with emacspeak, but with Fedora. Why are they > shipping such an old version of emacspeak? I don't know how packages in Fedora make their way to a release, but a bug report in Redhat's Bugzilla[1] mentions that a package of Emacspeak 21.0 was added to "FC devel". Footnotes: [1] <URL:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=141467> -- Ralf