Hongyi Zhao <[email protected]> writes: > On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 2:48 PM Tassilo Horn <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hongyi Zhao <[email protected]> writes: >> >> Hi, >> >> > I'm on Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS, and use straight [1] as the Emacs package >> > manager. Now, I try to install auctex from within Emacs with straight, >> > but it always freezes at the configure stage. I describe the detailed >> > test steps as follows. >> >> I've never used straight.el but the first thing I'd try was running >> ./configure in the checkout made by straight.el. Does that finish? >> >> Then I'd try something like >> >> (let ((default-directory "~/auctex-checkout")) >> (call-process "~/auctex-checkout/configure" nil "*configure-output*" t)) > > I do another similar but more simple test, i.e., `C-x C-e' the > following code in *scratch* buffer: > > (let ((default-directory "~/auctex")) > (call-process "ls ~/auctex/configure" nil "*configure-output*" t))
That's not more simple but more complex. call-process requires an _executable_ filename as argument, not a shell command. -- David Kastrup
