Re: [AUCTeX] how to use the git repository to obtain the latest aucTeX?

[Tassilo Horn]

Nicolas Richard <address@hidden> writes:

>> Why don't people read it?

I think most people have the assumption that when specifying a --prefix,
then everything will be underneath that.

>> Maybe AUCTeX should not use any fallbacks but just refuse to do
>> anything when people tell it to install to a hierarchy that they
>> don't actually place into their load-path or similar.

I tend to agree.  Usually, I install first and then adapt load-path.
AUCTeX goes the other route and tries to ensure that everything will
just work.  The cost of that is that its installation procedure isn't
very transparent.

Especially, even after

  $ mkdir -p "$HOME/share/emacs/site-lisp"
  $ ./configure --prefix="$HOME"
  
auctex still wants to install the lisp files in
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp.

The config.log suggests that's the case because the directory is not in
load-path.  But how could I add that to load-path given that configure
calls emacs with --batch which implies -q?

Bye,
Tassilo