Re: [AUCTeX] AUCTeX, Cygwin and Vista (Was: AUCTeX, MSYS and Vista)
Alexey Romanov wrote: Uwe Siart wrote: On 13 Feb 2008 at 21:05, Ciaran Taylor wrote: I'm posting this in case it's useful to users of Windows Vista who now need to use MSYS to install the latest AUCTeX. Does this mean Cygwin isn't supposed to work? Maybe, but ... On my new PC at home (which runs Windows Vista), I had no problems with Emacs 22.1 but when I came to install AUCTeX, configure and make were fine, but make install didn't get very far without being denied permission. I tried fiddling with permissions on various programs, but nothing worked. Then I tried enabling the Administrator account and installing from there: problem solved! ... I'd not consider this a flaw because the messages of 'make' clearly say: "Now run 'make install' as root". -- Uwe Sure, installing as root is natural on *n*x, but it is not entirely obvious what the Windows equivalent is. In XP all that was necessary was to run 'make install' from a user account with administrator privileges (one might think this was equivalent to "run as root") but in Vista this is not enough: you need to use the Administrator account. This is not entirely straightforward: the Administrator account is hidden in Vista (as it was in XP also) so you have to find it and enable it before you can use it. It took me a while to figure this out, so I thought it might be helpful to report it. Anyway, I'm not reporting this as a fault, merely a tip to other Vista users. Ciaran. I've tried to follow your advice with Cygwin, but run into a weird difficulty: I get "/bin/sh: command not found". "which sh" shows /cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin/sh. I've replaced /bin/sh with /cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin/sh everywhere I've found it. Now "configure" works (if --disable-preview is used, otherwise it finds /bin/sh somehow on the line 4459) and so does "make". "make install" gets me "/cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin/sh: ./mkinstalldirs: No such file or directory make: [install-el] Error 127 (ignored)" two times, then it tries to access a non-existent directory, which obviously doesn't work. All of this only happens under Administrator account -- my own (administrator) account accesses ./mkinstalldirs all right, but of course "make install" doesn't work. I have no experience with Cygwin, but I notice that the file INSTALL.windows says "Avoid `helpful' magic file names like `/cygdrive/c' and `C:\PROGRA~1\' like the plague. It is quite unlikely that the scripts will be able to identify the actual file names involved." I don't entirely understand what the problem might be with `/cygdrive/c' , but could your difficulties be something to do with this? Best regards, Ciaran. ___ auctex mailing list auctex@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/auctex
Re: [AUCTeX] AUCTeX, MSYS and Vista
Uwe Siart wrote: On 13 Feb 2008 at 21:05, Ciaran Taylor wrote: I'm posting this in case it's useful to users of Windows Vista who now need to use MSYS to install the latest AUCTeX. Maybe, but ... On my new PC at home (which runs Windows Vista), I had no problems with Emacs 22.1 but when I came to install AUCTeX, configure and make were fine, but make install didn't get very far without being denied permission. I tried fiddling with permissions on various programs, but nothing worked. Then I tried enabling the Administrator account and installing from there: problem solved! ... I'd not consider this a flaw because the messages of 'make' clearly say: Now run 'make install' as root. -- Uwe Sure, installing as root is natural on *n*x, but it is not entirely obvious what the Windows equivalent is. In XP all that was necessary was to run 'make install' from a user account with administrator privileges (one might think this was equivalent to run as root) but in Vista this is not enough: you need to use the Administrator account. This is not entirely straightforward: the Administrator account is hidden in Vista (as it was in XP also) so you have to find it and enable it before you can use it. It took me a while to figure this out, so I thought it might be helpful to report it. Anyway, I'm not reporting this as a fault, merely a tip to other Vista users. Ciaran. ___ auctex mailing list auctex@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/auctex
[AUCTeX] AUCTeX, MSYS and Vista
Hi I'm posting this in case it's useful to users of Windows Vista who now need to use MSYS to install the latest AUCTeX. I downloaded the precompiled Emacs 22.1 for windows together with AUCTeX 11.85. I used MSYS to install AUCTeX on my PC at work (which runs Windows XP) without a hitch. On my new PC at home (which runs Windows Vista), I had no problems with Emacs 22.1 but when I came to install AUCTeX, configure and make were fine, but make install didn't get very far without being denied permission. I tried fiddling with permissions on various programs, but nothing worked. Then I tried enabling the Administrator account and installing from there: problem solved! (A bit of Googling had produced this idea (among others which didn't work) and very different ways to implement it. I chose the easiest.) Ciaran Taylor. ___ auctex mailing list auctex@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/auctex
Re: [AUCTeX] viewing pdf files
juan mari alberdi wrote: Hello, I've pdflatex processed a file activating MiKTeX with C-c C-t C-p. When I ask AUCTeX to show the .pdf file, it opens a DOS shell but does nothing, just waits for input. I see that the command in the list 'TeX Output View Style' is 'start %o'. How could I change things to make AUCTeX execute my Acrobat application? Thank you for your attention, Juan Alberdi I've been having this problem since I upgraded to AUCTeX 11.84 (the latest precompiled emacs + AUCTeX package for Windows). With 11.83 and previous, View launched Acrobat and displayed the PDF. Regards, Ciaran Taylor. begin:vcard fn:Ciaran Taylor n:Taylor;Ciaran email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] version:2.1 end:vcard ___ auctex mailing list auctex@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/auctex
Re: [AUCTeX] New version of Emacs/AUCTeX bundle for Windows available
Ralf Angeli wrote: There is a new version of the Emacs/AUCTeX bundle for Windows available. Release notes URL:ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/auctex/RELEASE-2006-06-24.txt Precompiled bundle URL:ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/auctex/emacs+auctex-w32-2006-06-24.zip Source code URL:ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/auctex/emacs+auctex-src-2006-06-24.zip Changes compared to last version: * Update AUCTeX to version 11.83. * Update zlib to version 1.2.3 eliminating a security risk. * Update Emacs. Ralf Thank you: having the Emacs/AUCTeX bundle is so convenient, especially for compulsive updaters like me! The new LaTeX buttons on the toolbar are nice: now it seems sinfully easy to use. It was sort of fun (in a masochistic kind of way) to make AUCTeX using MSYS, but I certainly couldn't recommend it to more nervous Windows users. This is great! Gratefully Ciaran. begin:vcard fn:Ciaran Taylor n:Taylor;Ciaran email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] version:2.1 end:vcard ___ auctex mailing list auctex@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/auctex
