Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] 11.84; Location of installed .info files

[David Kastrup]

Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:

> * David Kastrup (2007-01-13) writes:
>
>> Uwe Siart <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> I run CVS Emacs on Win32. As of the latest release 11.84, the info files
>>> (auctex.info and preview-latex.info) are copied to a newly created
>>> directory
>>>
>>>   /c/programme/emacs/share/info
>>>
>>> within my Emacs directory /c/programme/emacs/. As a consequence, they
>>> are not found by the info reader.
>>
>> config.log would be more interesting, I am afraid.  Could you post
>> this?
>
> I suspect the culprit lies in different autoconf versions being used.
> `configure' generated with autoconf 2.61 (as installed on my system)
> contains this:
>
> # ./configure --help | grep 'datarootdir\|infodir'
>   --datarootdir=DIR      read-only arch.-independent data root [PREFIX/share]
>   --infodir=DIR          info documentation [DATAROOTDIR/info]
>
> The output on Reiner's build server likely looks different.

How does Reiner's build server play into this?  And why would the CVS
Emacs compile to a different info location as AUCTeX?  Does it not use
a similar version of autoconf?

Is this a bug in autoconf?

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum