Re: Difficulties with elpa repository.

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hello, Stefan.

On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 04:07:03PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > This has been difficult.  I followed the instructions to build elpa in
> > its README.

> Which ones?  There re several, depending on what you want to do.
> In your case, the best option is to "install in place", I think (you
> don't want to create tarballs for distribution, since those aren't
> compiled anyway).  So

>    git clone .../elpa
>    cd elpa
>    make externals
>    make

> Should do what you want.

OK.  I call make with

    PATH=~/path/to/emacs-25/src:$PATH make -k

, and I've inserted a "-Q" into the definition of EMACS in GNUMakefile.
But I get a near infinite number of errors like:

    Error loading autoloads: (file-error Cannot open load file No such
    file or directory tex-site)

, always complaining about the one file tex-site.  tex-site.el is in the
auctex package.  Have you any notion as to why so many files are trying
to load tex-site.el/c, and why they're not finding it?

> I rebuild in this way on a regular basis, so I'm pretty sure that it
> works to some extent, but there might be issues with the initial
> setup, or temporary problems.  "make -k" lets you go past some
> temporary problems in specific packages.

Funnily enough, my make -k bailed out about 15% of the way through the
build.  I'll need to look at that.

[ .... ]


>         Stefan

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).