David Kastrup <[email protected]> writes: >>>> I've just installed the last git version >>>> >>>> Here is the message given by emacs when I open a latex file: >>>> >>>> Cannot find image file >>>> `/home/novatux/local/git-code/auctex/preview/auctex/images/prvtex24.xpm' >>>> >>>> but in fact this image is in >>>> `/home/novatux/local/git-code/auctex/preview/images/prvtex24.xpm' >>>> >>>> No auctex under preview. >>> >>> You seem to run auctex from the git checkout. In that case, you have to >>> set TeX-data-directory to that. >>> >>> (setq TeX-data-directory "/home/novatux/local/git-code/auctex/") >> >> I'm sorry, I was not clear at all. >> >> I've setq correctly the TeX-data-directory. >> >> The problem is in the path which is considered by aucTeX to find the >> image. It is expecting the image to be in >> [TeX-data-directory]preview/auctex/images/ >> whereas the image really is in >> [TeX-data-directory]preview/images/ >> >> There is, in the aucTeX files tree installed on my machine, no auctex >> directory under preview and the image directory is a direct child of >> [TeX-data-directory]preview. >> >> I hope to be clearer this time. > > The source tree of AUCTeX is not suitable for running in-place. Please > configure a suitable place to install AUCTeX to and run "make install".
Of course, David is right. But if you still want to run it in-place, you could also set (setq preview-datadir (expand-file-name "preview" TeX-data-directory)) Bye, Tassilo _______________________________________________ bug-auctex mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-auctex
