Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] 11.82; removing AUCTeX

[Les Saper]

Thanks for the reply.

Your "obvious solution" to use (unload-feature 'auctex-init) does not 
work.  Indeed it yields an error message "auctex-init is not a currently 
loaded feature" as it should.  (And if it did fix the problem that would 
imply that there is a bug in the AUCTeX documentation.)

My speculations about the two files in site-start.d were just an 
uneducated guess.  In fact our systems person says that it looks like the 
file auctex-init.el has been included since auctex version 11.55.

Can you defintely state that this file does not belong in current versions 
of AUCTeX?  If so, I can file a bug report with Fedora that they should 
remove it but the question remains how did it get there?

Thanks for the help.

- Les Saper

On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, David Kastrup wrote:

> Les Saper <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > I would like to remove or disable a site-installed AUCTeX.  I
> > tried this two ways, as indicated below.  The first way
> > (recommended in the documentation) resulted in an
> > error; I include the backtrace.   The second way works but is too
> > cumbersome for general use.  I also include a note that may
> > suggest the problem.
> >
> > (Note that in November I reported a somewhat different bug in
> > 11.81 regarding removing auctex; that bug I understand was fixed.
> > The current error message is different.)
> >
> > 1) According to the manual removing AUCTeX can be done by including the line
> >
> >   (unload-feature 'tex-site)
> >
> > in my ~/.emacs file.  When I do this I am informed that an error occured
> > while loading .emacs:
> >
> >   An error has occurred while loading `/home/faculty/saper/.emacs':
> >
> >   error: "Loaded libraries
> >   (\"/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/auctex-init.el\")
> >   depend on tex-site"
>
> Well, the obvious solution then would be (unload-feature 'auctex-init)
> or something like that.  Not sure whether this can be made to work,
> though.
>
> > 2) I also tried to start emacs with `emacs -q -no-site-file' as
> > recommended in the FAQ.  I then evaluated (load "auctex.el" nil t t)
> > in order to load AUCTeX.  I then evaluated (unload-feature
> > 'tex-site) to remove AUCTeX.  This works but obviously I cannot do
> > this every time, and in any case it precludes my having a .emacs
> > file.
> >
> > 3) I notice in our installation that
> >
> > /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d
> >
> > includes both  auctex-init.el and  auctex.el .  The
> > auctex-init.el file has contents:
> >
> > ; Autoactivation of AUCTeX
> > ; Created for emacs-auctex-11.82-1.fc4.noarch.rpm
> > (require 'tex-site)
> >
> > This file seems to be causing the problem.
> >
> > I would appreciate any suggestions you have.
>
> Deleting the auctex-init.el file and filing a bug report to Fedora
> would seem like the appropriate fix.  Two files in site-start.d for
> AUCTeX seem overkill.
>
> Anyway, the Fedora packaging is lacking preview-latex.  I'd recommend
> that you get the most recent SuSE Source RPM from the AUCTeX download
> site and do an rpmbuild --rebuild on it: this has been reported to
> produce a working RPM for Fedora, including preview-latex.