Bug 131761 – app-emacs/auctex should probably dep on app-text/dvipng

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Colin Macdonald 2006-04-30 00:32:08 UTC]

When preview-latex use flag is set, app-emacs/auctex should probably dep on app-text/dvipng.  Its not strictly necessary but apparently is much faster then using dvips/ghostscript.

See here:
http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/preview-manual/preview-latex.html#Basic-modes-of-operation

[Comment 1 Colin Macdonald 2006-04-30 00:48:51 UTC]

I forgot to mention that the reason I mention is that tetex-3.0_p1-r3 no longer installs dvipng, so in the past we didn't need auctex to dep on dvipng

[Comment 2 Matthew Kennedy (RETIRED) 2006-06-18 21:13:50 UTC]

Thanks for the note. Committed to portage.

ppc, ppc-macos, ppc64 people, please keyword the dependency, app-text/dvipng and then keyword app-emacs/auctex-11.83.ebuild.

[Comment 3 Markus Rothe (RETIRED) 2006-06-18 23:43:33 UTC]

this won't pass configure for me (PPC64):


checking for Emacs prefix... cat: ./conftest-20239: No such file or directory
""
checking if Emacs is recent enough... cat: ./conftest-20239: No such file or directory

configure: error: This package requires at least Emacs version 21.1  Aborting!

!!! Please attach the following file when filing a report to bugs.gentoo.org:
!!! /var/tmp/portage/auctex-11.83/work/auctex-11.83/config.log


this happens with version 11.83 and 11.82. can someone confirm this?

[Comment 4 Markus Rothe (RETIRED) 2006-06-18 23:45:17 UTC]

Created attachment 89510 [details]
config.log on PPC64

[Comment 5 Matthew Kennedy (RETIRED) 2006-06-19 07:53:56 UTC]

looks like a regression wrt the configure patch. i'll check that out and get back to you

[Comment 6 Joshua (RETIRED) 2006-06-23 20:17:34 UTC]

Works fine for me here on ppc64, but I've got app-editors/emacs-cvs-22.0.50.

[Comment 7 Tobias Scherbaum (RETIRED) 2006-06-25 05:19:42 UTC]

Added ~ppc.

[Comment 8 Markus Rothe (RETIRED) 2006-06-25 06:14:21 UTC]

(In reply to comment #6)
> Works fine for me here on ppc64, but I've got app-editors/emacs-cvs-22.0.50.
> 

I can confirm this: auctex fails if emacs is installs but installs just fine if emacs-cvs is installed. (only tested on ppc64)

[Comment 9 Markus Rothe (RETIRED) 2007-01-09 07:21:53 UTC]

any news regarding comment #3?

[Comment 10 Christian Faulhammer (RETIRED) 2007-03-02 12:41:18 UTC]

Created attachment 111792 [details, diff]
patch for PPC64 configuration

(In reply to comment #9)
> any news regarding comment #3?

 I am thinking about patching Emacs detection from AUCTeX' build system.  ppc64, could you try 11.84?  If it fails, too, please apply this patch and try again.

[Comment 11 Christian Faulhammer (RETIRED) 2007-03-02 12:41:58 UTC]

ppc-macos, please consider the keywords on app-text/dvipng and app-emacs/auctex or drop them entirely.

[Comment 12 Fabian Groffen 2007-03-17 23:32:55 UTC]

I see you removed it yourself.

[Comment 13 Markus Rothe (RETIRED) 2007-03-29 15:24:01 UTC]

(In reply to comment #10)
>  I am thinking about patching Emacs detection from AUCTeX' build system. 
> ppc64, could you try 11.84?  If it fails, too, please apply this patch and try
> again.

kind of late this answer, but the patch does solve this problem.

[Comment 14 Christian Faulhammer (RETIRED) 2007-03-30 15:48:26 UTC]

ppc64, 11.84-r1 has the patch and should work for you.  A test plan for AUCTeX is found in bug #154240.  If AUCTeX works, dvipng is fine, too.

[Comment 15 Markus Rothe (RETIRED) 2007-04-09 09:22:43 UTC]

thanks for the patch! works fine on ppc64 now. added ~ppc64

last arch CC'd and auctex now depends on dvipng -> marking as FIXED