Hi, Since trying to ./configure auctex straight out of the source tree (which fails with the same error), this may be a problem better addressed to the AucTeX developers. I was concerned that this might be a Slackware-specific problem.
Thanks for any hints, Joel > --===============0615429295== > Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; > micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" > > --=-=-= > > Hello, > > I have two Slackware 13.0 installations, and have TeXLive 2008 on my > workstation and teTeX installed on a laptop. I have had no problems > installing AUCTeX on the workstation, but on the laptop the > installation fails at the configure step checking for LaTeX. latex is > in /usr/bin (in my user and root PATHs), and so 'whereis latex ' returns > > latex: /usr/bin/latex /usr/X11R6/bin/latex /usr/bin/X11/latex > /usr/X11/bin/latex /usr/man/man1/latex.1 /usr/man/man1/latex.pdf > /usr/share/man/man1/latex.1 /usr/share/man/man1/latex.pdf > /usr/X11/man/man1/latex.1 /usr/X11/man/man1/latex.pdf > > as it should. > > I used to have this problem when installing R, and corrected it by > putting /usr/share/texmf/bin in root's PATH. However, since removing > teTeX and installing TeXLive, I have had no problems. > > How does configure check for LaTeX? > > Thanks, > > Joel > > Joel J. Adamson -- http://www.unc.edu/~adamsonj > University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill > CB #3280, Coker Hall > Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3280 > > > --=-=-= > Content-Type: application/pgp-signature > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAkqxTjcACgkQdjuynxXap4Ra1QCZARPTLboTl9k7MNOjmhjsURMW > ScwAoIqi5sB0eWgq5IFScilu4T4+lNgk > =GTg1 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > --=-=-=-- > > --===============0615429295== > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Content-Disposition: inline > > _______________________________________________ > SlackBuilds-users mailing list > SlackBuilds-users@slackbuilds.org > http://lists.slackbuilds.org/mailman/listinfo/slackbuilds-users > Archives - http://lists.slackbuilds.org/pipermail/slackbuilds-users/ > FAQ - http://slackbuilds.org/faq/ > > > --===============0615429295==-- -- Joel J. Adamson -- http://www.unc.edu/~adamsonj University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill CB #3280, Coker Hall Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3280 _______________________________________________ SlackBuilds-users mailing list SlackBuilds-users@slackbuilds.org http://lists.slackbuilds.org/mailman/listinfo/slackbuilds-users Archives - http://lists.slackbuilds.org/pipermail/slackbuilds-users/ FAQ - http://slackbuilds.org/faq/