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

Daniel Flipo <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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?

That's the usual setup in Debian: The load path always contains
/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp and
/usr/local/share/<emacs-flavor>/site-lisp. This enables the local
administrator to install newer versions than provided by Debian. By the
way, the tetex packages do the same: TEXMFLOCAL is searched before
TEXMFMAIN (and TEXMFVAR).

> « 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?

Yes, this should put the "<emacs-flavor>" directories (where the
byte-compiled files are) before the plain "emacs" directories. I guess
it could be shortened to 

    (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/"))

because auctex depends on emacsen-common which defines this
function. Oh, it does _not_ depend directly on it, but that's a
different bug. At least emacs21 depends on it, and auctex depends on
emacs21, so that the function will be known every time 50auctex.el is
loaded. 

Davide?

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer