[Bug-AUCTeX] Re: [AUCTeX] auctex installation fails under Mac OS X 10.4 and xemacs

[Artemio Gonzalez Lopez]

On May 19, 2005, at 10:30 AM, David Kastrup wrote:


> Artemio Gonzalez Lopez <address@hidden> writes:
>
>
>
> > On May 19, 2005, at 10:01 AM, David Kastrup wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > Artemio Gonzalez Lopez <address@hidden> writes:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > ... there are several non-fatal warnings like the following:
> > > >
> > > > ./mkinstalldirs /Users/artemio/.xemacs/xemacs-packages/etc/auctex
> > > > make[1]: execvp: ./mkinstalldirs: Permission denied
> > > > make[1]: [install-nosearch] Error 127 (ignored)
> > > >
> > > > This is strange, because /Users/artemio/.xemacs/xemacs-packages/ 
> > > > etc/
> > > > is writable by me (artemio). The installation steps I followed were
> > > > the following: ...
> > >
> > > This sounds more like ./mkinstalldirs could not be executed.  Take a
> > > look at its first line: do you have a shell with the given path  
> > > name?
> > > Is its executable bit set?
> >
> > After reviewing the make install output, I agree with you that the
> > problem is ./mkinstalldirs, since no directory under ~/.xemacs/ 
> > xemacs-
> > packages/lisp/auctex/ get installed. The shell in the first line  
> > of ./
> > mkinstalldirs is /bin/sh, which I of course can run:
> >
> > [tillina:~] artemio% l  /bin/sh
> > -r-xr-xr-x   1 root  wheel  581636 Mar 21 00:39 /bin/sh
>
> Uh, I meant "is the executable bit of ./mkinstalldirs set"?  That
> should have happened when unpacking.

David,

After downloading auctex from CVS from scratch, I have been able to  
eliminate all of the ./mkinstalldirs "permission denied" errors.  
However, "make install" still fails:

Loading customization dependencies...
Loading customization dependencies...done
Compiling /Users/artemio/.xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/auctex/custom- 
load.el...
Compiling /Users/artemio/.xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/auctex/custom- 
load.el...done
Wrote /Users/artemio/.xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/auctex/custom-load.elc
Updating metadata for the directory /Users/artemio/.xemacs/xemacs- 
packages/lisp/auctex/...
Updating autoloads for the directory /Users/artemio/.xemacs/xemacs- 
packages/lisp/auctex/...

xemacs exiting.
Symbol's function definition is void: update-autoloads-from- 
directorymake[1]: *** [install-metadata] Error 255
make: *** [install] Error 2

If I open a tex file in xemacs, auctex fails to load with the  
enclosed backtrace. Any idea what may be going on (it's driving me  
nuts)?

Thanks a lot,

Backtrace.txt
Description: Text document

Artemio Gonzalez Lopez
address@hidden