Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] latex does not run after upgrade to (K)ubuntu 8.01 (texlive 2007)

[David Kastrup]

Uwe Brauer <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello 
>
> This is one of the most absurd things I can remember. I am running
> auctex 11.84, the prerelease Xemacs pkg, without problems for several
> month, and I installed even texlive 2007 on (K)ubuntu 6.01 Dapper, in
> /usr/local and everything was fine. However I upgraded to (K)ununtu
> 8.04, which ships texlive2007 my default and not any longer tetex.
>
> Now when I want to run latex on a buffer, via C-c C-c
> I obtain the following error  (debug-on-error t)
>
> --8<------------------------schnipp------------------------->8---
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-variable TeX-command-pos)
>   (numberp TeX-command-pos) (if (numberp TeX-command-pos) (setq
>   TeX-command-text (concat TeX-command-text ...) command (concat
>   ... ...) pos TeX-command-pos TeX-command-pos t) (setq pos (1+ pos)))
>   (lambda nil (if (numberp TeX-command-pos) (setq TeX-command-text
>   ... command ... pos TeX-command-pos TeX-command-pos t) (setq pos
>   ...)))() apply((lambda nil (if (numberp TeX-command-pos) (setq
>   TeX-command-text ... command ... pos TeX-command-pos TeX-command-pos
>   t) (setq pos ...))) nil) TeX-command-expand("%l
>   \"%(mode)\\input{%t}\"" TeX-master-file) TeX-command("LaTeX"
>   TeX-master-file nil) TeX-command-master(nil)
>   call-interactively(TeX-command-master)
> --8<------------------------schnapp------------------------->8---
>
>
> I am very puzzled, I could change of course the Tex-command-list, but I
> prefer to know what is going on before!
>
> Uwe Brauer 
>
>
>
> Emacs  : XEmacs 21.4 (patch 21) "Educational Television" [Lucid] 
> (i486-linux-gnu, Mule) of Sat May  3 2008 on terranova
> Package: AUCTeX CVS-1.14 (2007-02-05)

IIRC, AUCTeX CVS-1.14 is something prehistoric in the Sumo packages.  It
probably does not understand your customizations from a newer system.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum