Re: PB with auctex-11.54 (debian testing) *THE END*

Ralf Angeli writes:

« > flipo% emacs --debug-init .&
« >
« > Then I get a *Backtrace* buffer* which I append here.
« 
« | Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Variable binding depth exceeds max-specpdl-size")
« |   custom-add-to-group(TeX-file TeX-lisp-directory custom-variable)
« |   custom-handle-keyword(TeX-lisp-directory :group TeX-file custom-variable)
« |   custom-declare-variable(TeX-lisp-directory (concat "/usr/share/" (symbol-name debian-emacs-flavor) "/site-lisp/auctex/") ("/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/tex-site.elc" . 625) :group TeX-file :type directory)
« |   require(tex-site)
« |   eval-buffer(#<buffer  *load*<22>> nil "tex" nil t)
« |   load-with-code-conversion("/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/tex.el" "tex" nil t)
« |   load("tex" nil t)
« |   require(tex-site)
« [...]
« |   eval-buffer(#<buffer  *load*<2>> nil "tex" nil t)
« |   load-with-code-conversion("/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/tex.el" "tex" nil t)
« |   load("tex" nil t)
« |   require(tex-site)
« |   eval-buffer(#<buffer  *load*> nil "~/.emacs" nil t)
« |   load-with-code-conversion("/home/flipo/.emacs" "~/.emacs" t t)
« |   load("~/.emacs" t t)
« 
« Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

My system is rotten, I guess :-(

« Why does tex-site.el try to load tex.el?  Do you have a non-standard
« tex-site.el?  Maybe you could send the file for inspection.  Please
« locate it through Emacs by typing `M-x locate-libary RET tex-site
« RET'.

M-x locate-libary RET tex-site RET  says
/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/tex-site.elc
!!!

I just can't figure out how emacs has found this one.
I do have a directory /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/
with local .el(c) files.

Normally, I load my local  file site-start.el file:
/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.el(c)
by adding the line
(load "/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start")
to the standard /etc/emacs/site-start.el file (empty normally).

Then the local site-start.el loads my local tex-site.el(c).

But, before reporting my problem, I took care to move
out of the way the loading of my local  file site-start.el file.
I thought it would hide all my local files for the test, but
it does not, as the *Backtrace* shows...
Emacs still finds the directory
/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/
and the tex-site.el(c) files inside...
How is this possible?

Now, I have tar-gziped my /usr/local/share/emacs directory, Then
I removed and re-installed auctex from scratch. 
It does work properly! of course my customizations are lost :-(

Sorry to have wasted your precious time with my local mess.
I am looking forward to David's talks at EuroTeX in March,
I hope I'll be able to learn the proper way of customizing auctex ;-)

« In addition I don't understand why it tries to load tex.el and not
« tex.elc.  The result of `list-load-path-shadows' already showed that
« /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/... (which holds the source files)
« shadows /usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/auctex/... (which holds the
« compiled files).  I guess it should be the other way round.

The file 50auctex.el installed by Debian says:

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
;;; This file is automatically generated.

(if (fboundp 'debian-pkg-add-load-path-item)
    (progn (debian-pkg-add-load-path-item "/usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/auctex/")
           (debian-pkg-add-load-path-item "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/"))
  (progn (add-to-list 'load-path "/usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/auctex/" 'append)
         (add-to-list 'load-path "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/" 'append)))

(require 'tex-site)
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

Is this correct?

Daniel Flipo.