Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] Re: auctex 11.85 configure hangs

[David Kastrup]

Rodney Sparapani <address@hidden> writes:

> Ralf Angeli wrote:
>>
>> There is a chapter on the manual installation of packages in the XEmacs
>> manual: (Info-goto-node "(xemacs)Manually")
>>
>> Basically you just pick a directory where XEmacs looks for packages and
>> unpack the tar ball in this directory.  Which directory is right for you
>> depends upon if the package should be available to your user only or all
>> XEmacs users on the machine.  The default directories XEmacs is using
>> can be found in the variables `{early,late,last}-packages'.
>>
>>   
>
> Oh, I'm such an idiot! It took me only five minutes too install that
> and I could have saved myself hours of fruitless debugging!

I can't agree with you being an idiot: this problem is certainly going
to affect people wanting to install AUCTeX for Emacs rather than XEmacs,
and I certainly appreciate the time you put into debugging it, and I am
sorry that I have not really had sufficient time to come up with good
suggestions making this easier.

> Anyways, it works perfectly now. Thanks for a great package! I'm still
> wondering what went wrong with the infinite looping. Maybe a bug in
> Solaris 10? Maybe more bug reports will come in.

Maybe.  I am surprised that we did not get one up to now.  The code in
question is not really that new, and I thought we had Solaris users.
Maybe it depends on some particular shell version.

-- 
David Kastrup