[Bug-AUCTeX] 11.84; cannot start LaTeX mode

[Uwe Brauer]

I am still using auctex-11.84 in Xemacs 21.5.33 without a problem.

Now I want also to use auctex with GNU emacs 24 and I have several
problems.


As I understand it custom treats the LaTeX variables such
(TeX-command-list as changed from 11.84 to more recent version of
auctex however I want to use the same .emacs file for xemacs and GNU
emacs, I want to use 11.84 for GNU emacs as well. 


So I downloaded and installed auctex 11.84 locally.
However I run into a bug of the following form when opening a LaTeX
file:

Any help is very appreciated.

Uwe Brauer 

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function nil)
  nil()
  run-hooks(change-major-mode-after-body-hook text-mode-hook TeX-mode-hook 
LaTeX-mode-hook)
  apply(run-hooks (change-major-mode-after-body-hook text-mode-hook 
TeX-mode-hook LaTeX-mode-hook))
  TeX-run-mode-hooks(text-mode-hook TeX-mode-hook LaTeX-mode-hook)
  LaTeX-mode()
  call-interactively(LaTeX-mode record nil)
  command-execute(LaTeX-mode record)
  execute-extended-command(nil "LaTeX-mode")
  call-interactively(execute-extended-command nil nil)
  command-execute(execute-extended-command)





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Emacs  : GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.1)
 of 2013-06-30 on Burrurr
Package: 11.84

current state:
==============
(setq
 AUCTeX-date "2007-01-12"
 window-system 'x
 LaTeX-version "2e"
 TeX-style-path '("style" "auto" "/home/oub/tex/style" 
"/home/oub/tex/bib/style" "/home/oub/tex/sty/style"
                  "/home/oub/tex/letter/laletter/style" 
"/home/oub/tex/sty/fig/style"
                  "/home/oub/tex/letter/paletter/style" "/home/oub/tex/auto" 
"/home/oub/tex/bib/auto"
                  "/home/oub/tex/sty/auto" "/home/oub/tex/letter/laletter/auto" 
"/home/oub/tex/sty/fig/auto"
                  "/home/oub/tex/letter/paletter/auto"
                  
"/home/oub/emacs/site-lisp/packages/auctex-11.84/auctex/style" 
"/usr/local/var/auctex")
 TeX-auto-save nil
 TeX-parse-self nil
 TeX-master t
 TeX-command-list '(("TeX" "%(PDF)%(tex) %`%S%(PDFout)%(mode)%' %t" TeX-run-TeX 
nil
                     (plain-tex-mode ams-tex-mode texinfo-mode) :help "Run 
plain TeX")
                    ("LaTeX" "%`%l%(mode)%' %t" TeX-run-TeX nil (latex-mode 
doctex-mode) :help "Run LaTeX")
                    ("Makeinfo" "makeinfo %t" TeX-run-compile nil 
(texinfo-mode) :help
                     "Run Makeinfo with Info output")
                    ("Makeinfo HTML" "makeinfo --html %t" TeX-run-compile nil 
(texinfo-mode) :help
                     "Run Makeinfo with HTML output")
                    ("AmSTeX" "%(PDF)amstex %`%S%(PDFout)%(mode)%' %t" 
TeX-run-TeX nil (ams-tex-mode) :help
                     "Run AMSTeX")
                    ("ConTeXt" "texexec --once --texutil %(execopts)%t" 
TeX-run-TeX nil (context-mode) :help
                     "Run ConTeXt once")
                    ("ConTeXt Full" "texexec %(execopts)%t" TeX-run-TeX nil 
(context-mode) :help
                     "Run ConTeXt until completion")
                    ("BibTeX" "bibtex %s" TeX-run-BibTeX nil t :help "Run 
BibTeX")
                    ("View" "%V" TeX-run-discard t t :help "Run Viewer")
                    ("Print" "%p" TeX-run-command t t :help "Print the file")
                    ("Queue" "%q" TeX-run-background nil t :help "View the 
printer queue" :visible
                     TeX-queue-command)
                    ("File" "%(o?)dvips %d -o %f " TeX-run-command t t :help 
"Generate PostScript file")
                    ("Index" "makeindex %s" TeX-run-command nil t :help "Create 
index file")
                    ("Check" "lacheck %s" TeX-run-compile nil (latex-mode) :help
                     "Check LaTeX file for correctness")
                    ("Spell" "(TeX-ispell-document \"\")" TeX-run-function nil 
t :help
                     "Spell-check the document")
                    ("Clean" "TeX-clean" TeX-run-function nil t :help "Delete 
generated intermediate files")
                    ("Clean All" "(TeX-clean t)" TeX-run-function nil t :help
                     "Delete generated intermediate and output files")
                    ("Other" "" TeX-run-command t t :help "Run an arbitrary 
command"))
 )