help needed to sync auctex pkg with the new 11.52 release

Uwe Brauer oub at gmx.net
Tue Aug 24 10:00:59 EDT 2004


Hello

I try to sync the official Xemacs auctex pkg with the current 11.52
(author release). Since the installation procedure changes, I enconter
some difficulties and would like to ask for help.


		(1) the traditional TeX-lisp-directory, which gets the value
		by running ./configure

(defvar TeX-lisp-directory "/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex"
  "*The directory where the AUCTeX lisp files are located.")


		Can be safely ignored, since autoload takes care of this, right?

		(2) a   new     directory  is    introduced,       called
		    TeX-auto-global. Using ./configure I got.

(defcustom TeX-auto-global "/home/oub/var"
  "*Directory containing automatically generated information.
Must end with a directory separator.

For storing automatic extracted information about the TeX macros
shared by all users of a site."
  :group 'TeX-file
  :type 'directory)

		I would like to have this directory in the
		/xemacs-packages/etc/auctex directory, where already the
		/styles directory is placed. There are two questions,
		

		- first  how to add a  reasonable entry into the Makefile?
		  Such that
          "make bindist"
          gives my a tar ball with the new
		  directory included. I tried
		  DATA_1_DEST = $(PACKAGE)/var , in the analoge manner to
		  the style directory, which has the corresponding
		  makefile entry.
		  DATA_DEST = $(PACKAGE)/style.
		  However this did not work

		- how can I be sure that the variable TeX-auto-global is
		  set correctly to
		  "prefix/xemacs-packages/etc/auctex/var" ???
 
		(5) the  TeX-macro-global variable: I never thought about
		    this neither. During configuration, configure guesses
		    where the relevant style files are placed, like

(defcustom TeX-macro-global '("/usr/share/texmf/tex/"
"/usr/share/texmf/bibtex/bst/") 
  "Directories containing the sites TeX macro files and style files.
The directory names *must* end with a slash."
  :group 'TeX-file
  :type '(repeat (directory :format "%v")))


		how does the Xemacs package system know about it? I
        should not bother about this, since this is working for
        years, I got curious anyhow.

I would really appreciate any help, since otherwise I am afraid
cannot make the sync to 11.52 successful. That would be a pity,
although this version still has some Xemacs specific bugs, it
presents some new features.


Thanks

Uwe Brauer




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