Re: Loss of auctex functionality

[Sam Albers <tonightsthenight@gmail.com>]

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Thanks!

>
>
>  Is your site-lisp directory still empty?


    /usr/share/emacs22/site-lisp
    has ess and auctex files in it

    /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp
    has ess and auctex files in it

    /usr/share/emacs/22.2/site-lisp
    is an empty folder.


> Did you get any error
> messages when you tried to reinstall auctex?


 No


What does M-x find-library<RET>auctex<RET> do?


Can't find library


> What's the value of the load-path variable (C-h v load-path<RET>)?


load-path is a variable defined in `C source code'.
Its value is
("/usr/share/emacs22/site-lisp/ess/" "/usr/share/emacs22/site-lisp/ess"
"/usr/share/emacs22/site-lisp/dictionaries-common"
"/usr/share/emacs22/site-lisp/auctex" "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex"
"/etc/emacs22" "/etc/emacs" "/usr/local/share/emacs/22.2/site-lisp"
"/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp" "/usr/share/emacs/22.2/site-lisp"
"/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp" "/usr/share/emacs/22.2/leim"
"/usr/share/emacs/22.2/lisp" "/usr/share/emacs/22.2/lisp/url"
"/usr/share/emacs/22.2/lisp/textmodes"
"/usr/share/emacs/22.2/lisp/progmodes" "/usr/share/emacs/22.2/lisp/play"
"/usr/share/emacs/22.2/lisp/obsolete" "/usr/share/emacs/22.2/lisp/net"
"/usr/share/emacs/22.2/lisp/mh-e" "/usr/share/emacs/22.2/lisp/mail"
"/usr/share/emacs/22.2/lisp/language"
"/usr/share/emacs/22.2/lisp/international" "/usr/share/emacs/22.2/lisp/gnus"
"/usr/share/emacs/22.2/lisp/eshell" "/usr/share/emacs/22.2/lisp/erc"
"/usr/share/emacs/22.2/lisp/emulation"
"/usr/share/emacs/22.2/lisp/emacs-lisp"
"/usr/share/emacs/22.2/lisp/calendar" "/usr/share/emacs/22.2/lisp/calc"
"/usr/share/emacs/22.2/leim")

>
>
> I'm on Ubuntu 9.04 myself, using the emacs-snapshot package. The elisp
> files from auctex are installed in
>
>  /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex


Indeed this directory also has the auctex files

>
>
> on my machine, with byte-compiled versions in
>
>  /usr/share/emacs/23.0.91/site-lisp/auctex
>
> Have you compiled emacs or did you use a Ubuntu package?


I used the Ubuntu package

>
>
> The way it should work is that a debianized Emacs reads all files in
> /etc/emacs/site-start.d and /etc/<emacs-flavor>/site-start.d. The
> packages drop their initialization code here. I've got
>
>  /etc/emacs-snapshot/site-start.d/50auctex.el
>
> and you should have
>
>  /etc/emacs22/site-start.d/50auctex.el


This file is present.

I also have the snapshot, an emacs21, and an emacs directory


>
>
> Is this file present? What happens if you load it with M-x load-file?
> If you really like to know how packaging emacs extensions works on
> Debian you should read this:
>
>  http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/debian-emacs-policy
>
> You might be interested in the part where it speaks about the
> /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-package-install script (written in the
> perfect emacs rewrite language, btw).
>
> Oh yeah I will definitely give this a read. Thanks.
>
>
>  <anselm.helbig%2Bnews2009@googlemail.com>
>



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