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* gerald jean (2007-11-15) writes: > thanks for taking interest in my problems. To my knowledge I do have the > most recent version of AucTeX, i.e. 11.84 and I apologize for writing that > AucTeX was now a part of Emacs, I must have been confused with some other > package! > > The preceeding paragraph is from yesterday, after writing it I poked around > a bit and found that I was in fact running AucTeX 11.14 --- which ran > wonderfully under Emacs 21.3 but started to gave me the problems I > mentionned beforer under 22.1.1. > > I downloaded AucTeX 11.84 yesterday and have been trying to install it ever > since? I have been using Emacs and AucTeX for years without much problems. > I never installed AucTeX the way it has to be done now, i.e. through a > "configure" file, I used to just put the AucTeX files in a subdir in the > site-lisp directory, compile them, and let Emacs know about the new version > through my ".emacs" file and that was it! > > This time I tried to follow the instructions and ran the "./configure" > command (did it two times, one time under cygwin and a second time through > msys with the same results). That ran successfully, ending with > > ************************************** > Congratulations! Configuration of preview is complete. > > > Congratulations! Configuration of AUCTeX is complete. > > Type "make" at the prompt to build. > ***************************************** > > Hence I went on with "make", but was not as lucky with this one, both with > cygwin and msys. > > *************************************** > make[1]: Entering directory `/c/TEMP/auctex-11.84/preview' > (cd latex ; make all) > make[2]: Entering directory `/c/TEMP/auctex-11.84/preview/latex' > /c/MiKTeX/texmf/miktex/bin/latex '\nonstopmode \input preview.drv' > This is e-TeX, Version 3.141592-2.1 (MiKTeX 2.4) > entering extended mode > LaTeX2e <2003/12/01> > Babel <v3.8a> and hyphenation patterns for english, french, german, > ngerman, du > mylang, nohyphenation, loaded. > > (preview.drv (C:\MiKTeX\texmf\tex\latex\base\ltxdoc.clsmake[2]: *** > [preview.dvi] Error 5 > make[2]: Leaving directory `/c/TEMP/auctex-11.84/preview/latex' > make[1]: *** [texmf] Error 2 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/c/TEMP/auctex-11.84/preview' > make: *** [all] Error 2 > ************************************* > > When entering LaTeX, MiKTeX asked to download the package "subfig" I cliked > OK but the download failed, yielding the above errors. I then tried to > download the package through the MikTeX package manager and that failed as > well towards the end of the download, part of the log follows. > > ************************************* > Loading DBlight... > downloading > "ftp://ctan.math.utah.edu/tex-archive/systems/win32/miktex/tm/packages/miktex-zzdb1.cab";... > > Error: The file > > > ftp://ctan.math.utah.edu/tex-archive/systems/win32/miktex/tm/packages/miktex-zzdb1.cab > > cannot be downloaded for the following reason: > > Proxy Error ( The data area passed to a system call is too small. ) > Package installation failed. > ************************************** > > If I ftp to the problematic directory I don't even see a file named > "miktex-zzdb1.cab", I do see though files named: > "miktex-zzdb1-2.5.tar.bz2", and 2.6 and 2.7 versions as well??? MiKTeX 2.4 was discontinued, see <URL:http://miktex.org/2.4/>. You will likely have better luck after upgrading to a recent MiKTeX version. > I am not very good at e-lisp too start with, adding the ftp problems ont > top of that I sure can't figure out what is wrong, I just find it anoying > that I have happily worked with AuckTeX for a long time and updating to > supposedly a better version leaves me with no tools to complete my work! You can download a precompiled Emacs/AUCTeX bundle from the AUCTeX web site if you want to spare yourself the hassle of compiling and installing AUCTeX. -- Ralf _______________________________________________ auctex mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/auctex
