Re: Too much shell-escaping

David Kastrup <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.auc-tex
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Jan-Ake Larsson <[email protected]> writes:

> David Kastrup wrote:
>>>> 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.
>> 
>> I was talking about how things should be, not how they are.
>
> What is the reason for the change? (Just weighing the added complexity
> against the benefits of having tex-site.el in one directory and
> auctex/ in another?)

That we can accommodate package systems _and_ install in sensible
startup directory.  Putting the bulk of our AUCTeX files into

site-packages/auctex/lisp/auctex/

seems pretty absurd, for example.  At the current point of time,
preview-latex does not even dare making a guess where to install
preview-latex.el: that is a long-standing wart of our installation
process: that "make install" is not the last thing you need to do to
have every file placed where one can start working.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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