Re: New Emacs 22.1 and LaTeX-preview error

[RoBaTte <RoBaTte@GMail.com>]

David Kastrup wrote:
> 
> RoBaTte <RoBaTte@GMail.com> writes:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I used the last Emacs-AucTeX-bundle before and everything worked fine.
>> But today I installed Emacs 22.1 (precompiled) and AucTeX-11.84
>> (selfcompiled, but no errors).
>> Since then, if want to create a latex-preview, I always get this error:
>>
>> Preview-DviPS finished at Tue Oct 23 14:49:40
>> DviPS sentinel: Specified program for new process is a directory
>>
>>
>> I did'nt changed anything, except:
>> (load "auctex.el" nil t t)
>> (load "preview-latex.el" nil t t)  in the ~\.emacs
>>
>> Can anybody help me. I really would'nt like to downgrade back to an older
>> emacs-version.
> 
> M-x preview-submit-bug-report RET
> 
> But my guess would be that you specified your gs _directory_ as GS
> during configuration rather than your gswin32c.exe program.  When the
> configuration process is explicitly told that you know what you mean,
> it obeys.  It is not like the installation instructions don't tell
> you:
> 
>      Some executables might not be found in your path.  That is not a
>      good idea, but you can get around by specifying environment
>      variables to `configure':
>           GS="DRIVE:/PATH/TO/GSWIN32C.EXE" ./configure ...
>      should work for this purpose.  `gswin32c.exe' is the usual name for
>      the required _command line_ executable under Windows; in contrast,
>      `gswin32.exe' is likely to fail.
> 
> 
> 
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You're right. Thanks a lot.
The GS-command was a directory, instead of the gswin32c.exe. I don't know
why. thanks. Robs
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