Re: rel-0-8-1; Installation does not finish

[Sorry for the delay: the gateway Gmane->list seems to be
non-operative, so I am just reading this on Gmane right now]

Peter Dyballa <[email protected]> writes:

> Hello!
>
> According to a recent discussion in the Emacs on Mac OS X list I
> decided to install preview-latex in /Library/Application
> Support/Emacs. As ~/Library/Application Support/Emacs for the user,
> /Library/Application Support/Emacs is for the whole system to take in
> any extensions for a specific application, Emacs in our
> case. configure can cope with this pathname, but not make:
>
> 	/sw/bin/emacs -batch -q -no-site-file -no-init-file --eval
> 	(setq load-path (cons "." load-path)) -eval (let ((dir (pop
> 	command-line-args-l\
> 	eft))) (if (not (string-equal dir "")) (push dir load-path)))
> 	/Library/Application\ Support/Emacs -f batch-byte-compile
> 	preview.el
> 	
> 	In toplevel form:
> 	preview.el:57:11:Error: Cannot open load file: tex-site
> 	make: *** [preview.elc] Error 1
>
> These statements do work:
>
> 	;;;;no! (setq load-path (cons "/Library/Application
>             Support/Emacs" load-path))
> 	;;;;no! (nconc load-path '("/Library/Application Support/Emacs"))
> 	(add-to-list 'load-path "/Library/Application Support/Emacs")
> 	(add-to-list 'load-path (expand-file-name
> 	"~/Library/Application Support/Emacs"))
>
> Could you do something that installation works correctly? (I helped
> myself by deleting '-no-site-file')

preview-latex installation was supposed to figure out the location of
AUCTeX and add the respective path info where needed.

Did this go down the drain after some synchronization with AUCTeX
installation procedures, Jan-Åke?

> I tried this with Mac OS X 10.3.7, GNU Emacs 21.3.50 and a few
> carbonized Emacs 21.3.50 with AUCTeX 11.53 and RefTeX 4.25. The act
> of configuration and installation was done with GNU Emacs 21.3.50 as
> it comes unstable with Fink.
>
> Emacs  : GNU Emacs 21.3.50.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin7.6.0, X toolkit,
> Xaw3d scroll bars)
>   of 2004-12-07 on localhost
> Package: rel-0-8-1

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