Tassilo Horn <[email protected]> writes: >> ./configure --prefix="$HOME" >> make >> make install > > Oh, and somehow the above doesn't work for me. It still tries to access > stuff outside my HOME. > > % make install > ./mkinstalldirs /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp > rm -f /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/tex-site.el # Remove old > (Git-version) mistakes > test ! -f /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/tex-site.el || { \ > if grep -q "tex-site.*Don't edit." /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/tex-site.el; > then \ > echo "Overwriting old tex-site.el" ; \ > else \ > echo "Renaming old tex-site.el to tex-site.el.save" ; \ > mv /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/tex-site.el > /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/tex-site.el.save ; \ > fi; \ > } > if test Xno = Xno; \ > then /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 tex-site.el /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp ; \ > else rm -f /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/tex-site.el ; \ > fi > /usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file > ‘/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/tex-site.el’: Permission denied > make: *** [install-el] Error 1
That has also been reported as a bug some time ago: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-auctex/2012-10/msg00002.html It seems you can get a bit further by also specifying --with-lispdir="$HOME/.emacs.d", but then it'll fail when trying to install the preview stuff globally: mkdir -p -- /usr/share/texmf-site/tex/latex/preview mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/usr/share/texmf-site/tex/latex/preview’: Permission denied So it doesn't seem to be as easy as advertised. Bye, Tassilo _______________________________________________ auctex mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/auctex
