Artemio Gonzalez Lopez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Installation of the latest CVS auctex in Mac OS 10.4 fails at the > install phase with the following error message: > > Wrote /Users/artemio/.xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/auctex/custom-load.elc > Updating metadata for the directory > /Users/artemio/.xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/auctex/... > Updating autoloads for the directory > /Users/artemio/.xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/auctex/... > > xemacs exiting. > Symbol's function definition is void: > update-autoloads-from-directorymake[1]: *** [install-metadata] Error > 255 > make: *** [install] Error 2
Please report bugs with M-x TeX-submit-bug-report RET if possible. If not, at least include all relevant version numbers. Otherwise it will become hard to guess that you are using a very recent CVS version of XEmacs-21.5 or so. > Before that, there are several non-fatal warnings like the following: > > ./mkinstalldirs /Users/artemio/.xemacs/xemacs-packages/etc/auctex > make[1]: execvp: ./mkinstalldirs: Permission denied > make[1]: [install-nosearch] Error 127 (ignored) > > This is strange, because /Users/artemio/.xemacs/xemacs-packages/etc/ > is writable by me (artemio). The installation steps I followed were > the following: This sounds more like ./mkinstalldirs could not be executed. Take a look at its first line: do you have a shell with the given path name? Is its executable bit set? -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ auctex mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/auctex
