help needed to sync auctex pkg with the new 11.52 release

[Reiner Steib]

On Tue, Aug 24 2004, Uwe Brauer wrote:

> 		(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?

You don't need to put .../site-lisp/auctex in a directory present in
`load-path'.  `tex-site.el' should be placed in such a directory and
(require 'tex-site) adds the AUCTeX directory to `load-path'.

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

`TeX-auto-global' is not new.  Previously we set it to (concat
TeX-lisp-directory "auto/").  But it should be better placed in a
directory for modifiable data, usually "/var/auctex".  I don't know
how the XEmacs package system handles this kind of files.

,----[ (info "(autoconf)Installation Directory Variables") ]
|  - Variable: localstatedir
|      The directory for installing modifiable single-machine data.
`----

> 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.

David plans to do the next release 11.53 soon.  Users who dare to test
a snapshot can get it from [1] or use the CVS access.  It would be
useful if some XEmacs users test it before the release.  (Currently
all main AUCTeX developers don't use XEmacs and therefore our cursory
examination of XEmacs operation sometimes is not sufficient.)  Please
report problems using `TeX-submit-bug-report' (<menu-bar> <latex>
<report auctex bug>).

Bye, Reiner.

[1] http://theotp1.physik.uni-ulm.de/~ste/comp/emacs/auctex/snapshots/
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