[Bug: 21.4.18] site-lisp not in load-path

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

>>>>> "David" == David Kastrup <dak at gnu.org> writes:

    David> The complete tarball as well as the prebuilt XEmacs package
    David> are available from <URL:ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/auctex>,

Yup.  My preliminary assessment is that the sources are broken, though
it's not clear how badly.  A bug report was filed; I will take a
closer look sometime next week, most likely, if the AUCTeX developers
don't respond first.

Principal issues: It is not obvious how to successfully configure the
install not to overwrite a working installation.  configure does not
respect the user's setting of --prefix in the presence of
--without-packagedir.  The default non-package install is to
site-lisp, which has been deprecated for 5 years, and may not be
enabled in the user's XEmacs.  The default non-package install will
probably try to install documentation to .../no/man, which presumably
is not very useful.  On *BSD, one can't build the package, without
hand-editing the Makefile or similar workaround, since it uses "cp -a"
to prepare the target directory.

XEmacs users who are not comfortable working around the above
defects should not try to build AUCTeX from sources.

I have no comment on the package, except that "tar tzf" suggests that
everything is where it belongs, XEmacs-wise.

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