Re: Too much shell-escaping

David Kastrup wrote:
> Jan-Ake Larsson <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > Jan-Ake Larsson wrote:
> >> Perhaps some other auctex is in load-path than the one for which we
> >> are loading tex-site.el. Would the following work?
> >> 
> >> (defvar TeX-lisp-directory (expand-file-name 
> >> 			    "auctex" 
> >> 	                    (file-name-directory load-file-name))
> >>    "*The directory where most of the AUCTeX lisp files are located.
> >>    tex-site.el (wherein this variable is defined) resides in its
> >>    parent directory. For the location of lisp files associated with
> >>    styles, see the variables TeX-style-* (hand-generated lisp) and
> >>    TeX-auto-* (automatically generated lisp).")
> >
> > After some simple testing here, it seems to work. Are there problems
> > with using this, anyone?
> 
> Yes.  tex-site.el is placed in an arbitrary startup directory,
> probably a directory intended for automatic installation.  auctex is
> not necessarily below it.
> 
> But it would be fine with me if we have a default of
> 
> lispauctexdir='(expand-file-name "auctex" (file-name-directory load-file-name))))'
> 
> in our configure.in that only gets overriden when an _explicit_
> --with-auctexdir is specified on the command line, so that
> configure.in has the defaults

There is no such switch in AUCTeX. You are probably confusing this
with preview-latex, where -with-tex-site exists only to help that
configure find AUCTeX.

As far as I can see, tex-site.el is installed in $lispdir and
$auctexdir is _hardcoded_ as $lispdir/auctex.

/JÅ


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