Re: [AUCTeX] AUCTeX, MSYS and Vista

[Uwe Siart]

On 13 Feb 2008 at 21:05, Ciaran Taylor wrote:

> I'm posting this in case it's useful to users of Windows Vista who now 
> need to use MSYS to install the latest AUCTeX.

Maybe, but ...

> On my new PC at home (which runs Windows Vista), I had no problems
> with Emacs 22.1 but when I came to install AUCTeX, configure and make
> were fine, but make install didn't get very far without being denied
> permission. I tried fiddling with permissions on various programs,
> but nothing worked.  Then I tried enabling the 
> Administrator account and installing from there:  problem solved!

... I'd not consider this a flaw because the messages of 'make' clearly 
say: "Now run 'make install' as root".

--
Uwe