Bug#297181: auctex dont't install

[Frank Küster]

Bonjour Jean-Jacques,

please keep the bugnumber address in the Cc line. I'm also adding the
AUC-TeX mailing list to it, because it seems I need some help in
debugging. Davide, are you around currently?

Package: auctex
Version: 11.55-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
`aptitude install auctex` report: Unpacking auctex (from
.../auctex_11.55-1_all.deb) ...
Setting up auctex (11.55-1) ...
/usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/auctex emacs21 emacs21 failed
at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-package-install line 30, <TSORT> line
1.
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2

[...]

is there a file
CompilationLog.gz somewhere in a directory with auctex in its name,
probably in /usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/auctex/CompilationLog.gz?

zoe:~# ls -l /usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/auctex/
total 24
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22274 Feb 28 18:58 CompilationLog

If yes, can you please send both files to the bug address?

regards
J.J. Rétorré

[...]

checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking for emacs21... /usr/bin/emacs21
checking if /usr/bin/emacs21 is XEmacs... no
checking if (X)Emacs is recent enough... yes
checking for mule support... yes
checking where lisp files go... /usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/, expanded to /usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp
checking where automatically generated global style hooks go... /var/lib/auctex/emacs21, expanded to /var/lib/auctex/emacs21
checking for tex... /usr/bin/tex
checking for pdftex... /usr/bin/pdftex
checking for dvips... /usr/bin/dvips
checking for makeinfo... /usr/bin/makeinfo
checking for texi2html... /usr/bin/texi2html
checking for texi2dvi... /usr/bin/texi2dvi
checking for texi2pdf... /usr/bin/texi2pdf
checking for install-info... /usr/sbin/install-info
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating tex-site.el
config.status: creating doc/Makefile
Congratulations! Configuration is complete.

That looks okay so far.

Type "make" at the prompt to build AUCTeX
/usr/bin/emacs21 -batch -q -no-site-file -l lpath.el -f batch-byte-compile context-en.el
!! Symbol's function definition is void ((TeX-mode-specific-command-menu))
Done
make: *** [context-en.elc] Error 1

This is strange to me - this function is defined in a very basic part of
auctex. Does the file /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/tex.el exist,
and is there a tex.elc in /usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/auctex/? What
happens if you start emacs as root (if it tries to start as an X11
application, but may not, please use "emacs -nw". Please switch to the
*Messages* buffer, one line should read

Loading 50auctex (source)...done

Now please do M-x locate-library RET tex RET

and send us the output.

Thanks in advance,
Frank

[Ralf Angeli]

Post by Frank Küster

Type "make" at the prompt to build AUCTeX
/usr/bin/emacs21 -batch -q -no-site-file -l lpath.el -f batch-byte-compile context-en.el
!! Symbol's function definition is void ((TeX-mode-specific-command-menu))
Done
make: *** [context-en.elc] Error 1

This is strange to me

This is the same symptom as described in
<URL:http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=285860&archive=yes>.
The problem there was the presence of an old AUCTeX installation.