Re: Bug#1979: auctex postinst is completely insane

1995-12-12 Thread Bill Mitchell
"James A. Robinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > The postinst backgrounds itself. How can you tell if it succeeds or > > fails ? > [... (30 to 45 minutes on an old 486 w/ 8 megs RAM) ...] > Perhaps I should have postinst ask whether or not the .el file should > be generated? And have a script t

Re: Bug#1979: auctex postinst is completely insane

1995-12-12 Thread James A. Robinson
> > Package: auctex > Version: 9.2y-7 > > The postinst backgrounds itself. How can you tell if it succeeds or > fails ? The postinst steps through the tex directories and generates .el code for auc-tex's use. This process can take a long time on slow machines. I decided to background it, and