Re: [AUCTeX] AUCTeX, MSYS and Vista

[Ciaran Taylor]

Uwe Siart wrote:
> 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
>   
Sure, installing as root is natural on *n*x, but it is not entirely 
obvious what the Windows equivalent is. In XP all that was necessary was 
to run 'make install' from a user account with administrator privileges 
(one might think this was equivalent to "run as root") but in Vista this 
is not enough:  you need to use the Administrator account. This is not 
entirely straightforward: the Administrator account is hidden in Vista 
(as it was in XP also) so you have to find it and enable it before you 
can use it.  It took me a while to figure this out, so I thought it 
might be helpful to report it.

Anyway, I'm not reporting this as a fault, merely a tip to other Vista 
users.

Ciaran.