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The first step is to configure the source code, telling it where various files will be. To do so, run
./configure options
(Note: if you have fetched AUCTeX from Git rather than a regular release, you will have to first follow the instructions in README.GIT).
On many machines, you will not need to specify any options, but if
configure
cannot determine something on its own, you’ll need to
help it out with one of these options:
--prefix=/usr/local
All automatic placements for package components will be chosen from sensible existing hierarchies below this: directories like man, share and bin are supposed to be directly below prefix.
Only if no workable placement can be found there, in some cases an alternative search will be made in a prefix deduced from a suitable binary.
/usr/local is the default prefix, intended to be suitable for a site-wide installation. If you are packaging this as an operating system component for distribution, the setting /usr will probably be the right choice. See Providing AUCTeX as a package for detail.
If you are planning to install the package as a single non-priviledged user, you will typically set prefix to your home directory. Consult Installation for non-privileged users for addtional instructions.
--with-emacs[=/path/to/emacs]
If you are using a pretest which isn’t in your $PATH
, or
configure
is not finding the right Emacs executable, you can
specify it with this option.
--with-lispdir=/dir
This option specifies the location of the site-lisp directory within ‘load-path’ under which the files will get installed (the bulk will get installed in a subdirectory). ./configure should figure this out by itself.
--with-auctexstartfile=auctex.el
--with-previewstartfile=preview-latex.el
This is the name of the respective startup files. If lispdir contains a subdirectory site-start.d, the start files are placed there, and site-start.el should load them automatically. Please be aware that you must not move the start files after installation since other files are found relative to them.
--with-packagelispdir=auctex
This is the directory where the bulk of the package gets located. The startfile adds this into load-path.
--with-auto-dir=/dir
You can use this option to specify the directory containing automatically generated information. It is not necessary for most TeX installs, but may be used if you don’t like the directory that configure is suggesting.
--help
This is not an option specific to AUCTeX. A number of standard
options to configure
exist, and we do not have the room to
describe them here; a short description of each is available, using
--help
. If you use ‘--help=recursive’, then also
preview-latex-specific options will get listed.
--disable-preview
This disables configuration and installation of preview-latex. This option is not actually recommended. If your Emacs does not support images, you should really upgrade to a newer version. Distributors should, if possible, refrain from distributing AUCTeX and preview-latex separately in order to avoid confusion and upgrade hassles if users install partial packages on their own.
--with-texmf-dir=/dir
--without-texmf-dir
¶This option is used for specifying a TDS-compliant directory
hierarchy. Using --with-texmf-dir=/dir
you can specify
where the TeX TDS directory hierarchy resides, and the
TeX files will get installed in
/dir/tex/latex/preview/.
If you use the --without-texmf-dir
option, the TeX-related
files will be kept in the Emacs Lisp tree, and at runtime the
TEXINPUTS
environment variable will be made to point there. You
can install those files into your own TeX tree at some later time
with M-x preview-install-styles RET.
--with-tex-dir=/dir
If you want to specify an exact directory for the preview TeX files,
use --with-tex-dir=/dir
. In this case, the files will be
placed in /dir, and you’ll also need the following option:
--with-doc-dir=/dir
This option may be used to specify where the TeX documentation goes.
It is to be used when you are using --with-tex-dir=/dir
,
but is normally not necessary otherwise.
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