[AUCTeX-devel] problem loading auctex 11.89 in OS X

[Artemio González López]

I am trying to update from auctex 11.88 (which worked well) to 11.89. 
Unfortunately, auctex 11.89 fails to load, with the following error message:

File mode specification error: (void-variable LaTeX-preview-setup)

This happens even with the following minimal .emacs file:

(add-to-list 'load-path "~/Library/Application Support/Emacs/lisp")
(load "auctex.el" nil t t)
(load "preview-latex.el" nil t t)

(I have auctex installed in ~/Library/Application Support/Emacs/). And it 
happens both with Emacs 22.3.1 (carbon) and Emacs 22.5.95.1 (cocoa).

Does anybody know what could be amiss? 

Thanks a lot in advance,

Artemio Gonzalez Lopez
address@hidden

P.S. Here are the details of the two Emacsen I’m using:

GNU Emacs 22.3.1 (i386-apple-darwin9.6.0, Carbon Version 1.6.0) of 2009-02-19 
on imac.local
Windowing system distributor `Apple Inc.', version 10.12.0
configured using `configure  '--without-x' '--prefix=/usr/local''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: nil
  locale-coding-system: iso-8859-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Fundamental

Minor modes in effect:
  TeX-PDF-mode: t
  TeX-source-correlate-mode: t
  delete-selection-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  tabbar-mwheel-mode: t
  tabbar-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent messages: 
("/Volumes/Data/Users/artemio/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs")
Loading server...done
Loading /Volumes/Data/Users/artemio/Library/Application 
Support/Emacs/lisp/tex-site.el (source)...done
Loading easy-mmode...done
Loading paren...done
Loading advice...done
Loading delsel...done
Loading easymenu...done
Loading /Volumes/Data/Users/artemio/.session...done
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
Unable to load font -apple-helvetica-medium-r-normal--1-0-72-72-m-0-iso10646-1
Loading latexenc...done
Loading tex...
Loading regexp-opt...done
Loading tex...done
Loading latex...
Loading edmacro...done
File mode specification error: (void-variable LaTeX-preview-setup)
Loading latex...
ad-handle-definition: `LaTeX-add-environments' got redefined
ad-handle-definition: `LaTeX-add-bibliographies' got redefined
File mode specification error: (void-variable LaTeX-preview-setup)


GNU Emacs 25.0.95.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0, NS appkit-1265.21 Version 
10.9.5 (Build 13F1603))
 of 2016-06-11 built on builder10-9.local
Windowing system distributor 'Apple', version 10.3.1502
Configured using:
 'configure --with-ns '--enable-locallisppath=/Library/Application
 Support/Emacs/${version}/site-lisp:/Library/Application
 Support/Emacs/site-lisp''

Configured features:
NOTIFY ACL LIBXML2 ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS NS

Important settings:
  value of $LANG: en_ES.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

Major mode: Fundamental

Minor modes in effect:
  delete-selection-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  tabbar-mwheel-mode: t
  tabbar-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  global-eldoc-mode: t
  electric-indent-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  buffer-read-only: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent messages:
Loading paren...done
Loading /Volumes/Data/Users/artemio/.session...done
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
File mode specification error: (void-variable LaTeX-preview-setup)
ad-handle-definition: ‘LaTeX-add-environments’ got redefined
ad-handle-definition: ‘LaTeX-add-bibliographies’ got redefined
File mode specification error: (void-variable LaTeX-preview-setup)