Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 189488
Incorrect activation of AUCTeX
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:31 EST
Description of problem: Fedora activates AUCTeX by creating a file auctex-init.el within site-start.d . This file contains the LISP command (require 'tex-site) . However according to AUCTeX's maintainers (David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> and Ralf Angeli <angeli@iwi.uni-sb.de>), "AUCTeX's documentation clearly states that AUCTeX should be activated by loading auctex.el, not by requiring tex-site (which is what Fedora's auctex-init.el does)." A consequence of Fedora's type of activation is that AUCTeX cannot be deactivated. (According to the documentation, deactivation should be accomplished by issuing the LISP command (unload-feature 'tex-site) .) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): emacs-auctex-11.82-1.fc4.noarch.rpm How reproducible: Every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start emacs and open a .tex file 2. issue the LISP command (unload-feature 'tex-site) Actual results: AUCTeX is not deactivated and the following error message occurs: error: "Loaded libraries (\"/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/auctex-init.el\") depend on tex-site" Expected results: AUCTeX should be de-activated without error Additional info:
Hi Leslie, sorry I overlooked that item in the release notes (I've never actually needed to unload auctex!). Anyway, according to the release notes: http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/manual/html_node/Changes.html the file should contain (load "auctex.el" nil t t) instead of (require 'tex-site). If that one change fixes things for you (and please tell me if it isn't), then I'll update the package ASAP.
Putting (load "auctex.el" nil t t) into this file instead of (require 'tex-site) should do it. Thanks!
Builds for FC-4, FC-5, and devel with this fix have succeeded and will be available soon.