[AUCTeX] Re: Install problem on WinXP/EmacsW32

[Philipp Reichmuth]

David Kastrup schrieb:
> > Wrote c:/down/tex/auctex-cvs/auctex/latex.elc
> >
> > In toplevel form:
> > tex-info.el:29:1:Error: Symbol's value as variable is void: >>>>>>>
>
> That is a CVS merge conflict.  You likely changed something in the
> file and did an unsuccessful merge.

Nope, it's a fresh CVS checkout.  I get the same error message if I use 
the 11.83 release zip, so I think this can be ruled out.

> Not particularly consistent about your uppercase/lowercase.

Bad habit.  Too much exposure to Windows makes you sloppy about this.

> But at least it seems like the mixup only occurs consistently with
> binary names.

> > c:/down/tex/auctex-cvs/auctex/auto-loads.el and
> > c:/down/TeX/auctex-cvs/auctex/auto-loads.el are the same file
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> This error message sounds like Windows' notion of the name of the
> current directory differs from Emacs' notion with regard to spelling.
> Probably not fatal, but I have never seen that before.

I just renamed the directories in question to lowercase throughout, 
removed and updated the offending file from CVS and invoked configure 
again with consistent upper/lowercase. The message about the different 
spellings is gone, but I still get the error on tex-info.el.  The file 
does not contain ">>>>>>>" at all; in fact 'grep -R ">>>" *' in the 
distribution directory only returns a couple of XPM files.

Philipp