[Bug-AUCTeX] Re: cvs installtion problem

[David Kastrup]

"emacs user" <address@hidden> writes:

> apologies for not submitting with TeX-submit-bug-report, it's just
> that it's not possible as I cannot get auctex to install at all.
>
> using the version updated from cvs today, I run into this new problem:
>
> ~/.emacs.d/auctex $ autogen.sh
> configure.ac:6: error: possibly undefined macro:
> AC_DATE_VERSION_FROM_CHANGELOG
>       If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
>       See the Autoconf documentation.
> configure.ac:45: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_FULL_EXPAND
> configure.ac:71: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_LISPIFY_DIR
> configure.ac:122: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_SHELL_QUOTIFY
> configure.ac:140: error: possibly undefined macro: AS_HELP_STRING

This is to be expected.  It is a good idea to subscribe to the
auctex-devel list if you are planning to play with the CVS version.
It was announced there that I was seriously going to break things
right now, and I am quite in the process of doing so.  I'll be telling
the developer list when I am through with breaking things, but at that
point of time installation instructions and actual code will still
take time to be brought back into correspondence.

On the positive side: the new installation will include preview-latex
without additional sweat, it will install itself as the default mode
(when site-start.d exists and works as intended) without requiring
user intervention, and it will be easily unloadable either completely
or with a fine-grained selection of modes (like latex-mode -> AUCTeX,
plain-tex-mode -> texmode.el).

In a few days this should stabilize properly.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum