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

[David Kastrup]

Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:

> * Artemio Gonzalez Lopez (2005-05-20) writes:
>
>> I tried your patch,
>
> Oh, cool.  I did not expect this from being picked up right away. (c:
>
>> but now "make install" fails with the following  
>> error:
> [...]
>> Wrong number of arguments: update-autoload-files, 1make[1]: ***  
>
> Oops, forget the second mandatory argument of `update-autoload-files'.
>
> I looked at the doc string of this function and related functions and
> variables but cannot really make heads or tails of it.  What is meant
> by "feature" in this context?
>
> Anyway, if I had to _guess_ what to supply as second argument, I'd
> choose "auto".  This will hopefully generate an auto-autoloads.el
> file.  So the patch would look like this:
>
> --- prv-install.el    03 May 2005 14:40:13 +0200      1.10
> +++ prv-install.el    20 May 2005 15:33:45 +0200      
> @@ -94,7 +94,11 @@
>              ((string-equal "Generating autoloads for %s...done" fmt))
>              (t (apply si:message fmt args))))
>      (unwind-protect
> -        (update-autoloads-from-directory lisp-dir)
> +     (cond ((fboundp 'update-autoloads-from-directory)
> +            (update-autoloads-from-directory lisp-dir))
> +           ((fboundp 'update-autoload-files)
> +            (update-autoload-files '(lisp-dir) "auto"))
> +           (t (error "Failed to generate autoloads.")))
>        (fset 'message si:message))
>      (when (file-exists-p generated-autoload-file)
>        (with-temp-buffer (insert-file append-file)
>
> But I'd very much appreciate it if anybody with more knowledge about
> the autoloads facilities in XEmacs 21.5 could shed some light on
> this.

'(lisp-dir) ?  You are not being serious, right?  Either lisp-dir or
(list lisp-dir) would be required, I'd guess.

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