Hi all, I'm replying to a very old thread. It seems that configure option --prefix is broken partially so that non-privileged users have difficulties at installing AUCTeX under home directory.
>>>>> Ikumi Keita <ik...@ikumi.que.jp> writes: >>>>> Alex Branham <alex.bran...@gmail.com> writes: >> I guess I'm doing something wrong when building it from git? Here's >> what I currently do: >> git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/auctex.git ~/.emacs.d/lib/auctex >> cd ~/.emacs.d/lib/auctex >> ./autogen.sh >> .configure --prefix=$HOME >> make > I guess that you didn't issue `make install' and ...(snip)... Actually I didn't try it by myself when I wrote this sentence. I just recently realized that `make install' following the above procedure does not work as expected. After a similar procedure with env MAKE=gmake ./autogen.sh env MAKE=gmake ./configure --prefix=$HOME instead of `./autogen.sh' and `./configure --prefix=$HOME' because I have installed GNU make as gmake, my Makefile is: ...(snip)... prefix = /home/keita$(null) exec_prefix = ${prefix}$(null) libdir = ${exec_prefix}/lib$(null) packagedatadir = /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex$(null) datarootdir = ${prefix}/share$(null) datadir = ${datarootdir}$(null) localstatedir = ${prefix}/var$(null) infodir = ${datarootdir}/info$(null) lispdir = /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp$(null) auctexstartfile=/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex.el previewstartfile = /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/preview-latex.el packagelispdir = /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex$(null) packagedatadir = /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex$(null) packagedir = no$(null) autodir = ${localstatedir}/auctex$(null) preview_enabled=yes styledir = $(packagedatadir)/style ...(snip)... Note that there are several lines which assign absolute paths, overriding the --prefix option, to the make variables. Thus lisp files don't go under the home directory but are rejected to install under "/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp" during `make install' without admin privilege. This would be uncomfortable for users who try to install git development version under their home directories. I think this situation is not compatible with what is written in the section "Installation for non-privileged users" in INSTALL (or doc/install.texi). Shouln't `configure' (or `configure.ac'?) be rewritten to respect --prefix option for determining the install location of lisp files? Or, alternaitively, is it the AUCTeX documents that should be revised? Regards, Ikumi Keita _______________________________________________ auctex-devel mailing list auctex-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/auctex-devel
