[Bug-AUCTeX] [SOLVED] recursive require

[Salome \=\?iso-8859-1\?Q\?S\=F6dergran]

With lots of try-and-error I managed to solve my problem with:
>  Error: (error "Recursive `require' for feature `tex-site'")
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I think the two decisive things were the following:

1st, adding the auctex-path explicitly to the load path:
  (add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/elpa/auctex-11.87.5")

  2nd, putting (require 'tex-site) in the right place, e.g. /before/
  (require 'package)
  (package-initialize)

Everything's up and running again :-)
Salome