Re: auctex preview.dvi build failure

Ville Skyttä wrote: > Hello, > > Trying to build the latest sumo-tagged packages from CVS fails for me > while building auctex's preview.dvi. I have absolutely no clue about > *tex, but attached is the preview.log in case someone can tell from it > what might be wrong. This is with texinfo 4.11, texlive-texmf-latex > 2007-24.fc9 on Fedora 9. > > This looks to me like something that could be the problem, but I don't > know what to do about it: > > - Hm preview is part of the auctex 11.8x series not of the 11.5x. As I understand things auctex-11.84 did not make into sumo but stays in pre-release. Did that change, when?

> --- > ! Use of \next doesn't match its definition. > \pr＠version ->s > umo-2009-02-17 > l.33 ...nd\pr＠version{\expandafter\next\pr＠version > }}} \next \fi > If you say, e.g., `\def\a1{...}', then you must always > put `1' after `\a', since control sequence names are > made up of letters only. The macro here has not been > followed by the required stuff, so I'm ignoring it. > ---- > > The build eventually fails with: When Mats and I tried the "convert" 11.84 into a xemacs pkg I remember something similar. could it be that your texinfo is a little outdated?

Uwe Brauer