Auctex version 11.85 - How to Download and Install on Mac OS X
Friday the 20th of November, 2009

    version 11.85

      View the most recent changes for the auctex port at: auctex.darwinports.com/diff
      Scroll down toward the bottom of the page to get installation instructions for auctex.
      The raw portfile for auctex 11.85 is located here:
      http://auctex.darwinports.com/dports/editors/auctex/Portfile
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      The auctex Portfile 50984 2009-05-14 21:08:43Z and.damore macports.org $

      PortSystem 1.0

      Name: auctex
      Version: 11.85
      Category: editors print
      Maintainers: loria.fr:reilles openmaintainer
      Description: A major emacs mode for editing TeX files.
      Long Description: AUCTeX is an extensible package for writing and formatting TeX files in GNU Emacs and XEmacs. It supports many different TeX macro packages, including AMS-TeX, LaTeX, Texinfo, ConTeXt, and docTeX.

      Platform: darwin
      Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/
      Master Sites: gnu

      Checksums: md5 597c2adbee11877fe1f9b57baf0ba165

      # We want emacs from MacPorts since this will install stuff in emacs'
      # site-lisp and we want it to go into ${prefix}'s site-lisp.
      depends_lib port:emacs
      depends_run bin:tex:texlive

      configure.args --with-lispdir=${prefix}/share/emacs/site-lisp --with-auto-dir=${prefix}/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/auto

      Variant: emacs_app description "If your Emacs is emacs-app" {
      depends_lib-append port:emacs-app
      depends_lib-delete port:emacs
      configure.args-append --with-emacs=/Applications/MacPorts/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs
      configure.args-append --with-lispdir=/Applications/MacPorts/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/lisp
      }

      Variant: mactex description "If your TeX distribution is MacTeX" {
      # Note: This also needs /usr/texbin in binpath in macports.conf
      configure.args-append --with-texmf-dir=/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local
      }

      post-activate {
      ui_msg "To use this, put the following into your ~/.emacs:"
      ui_msg "(require 'tex-site)"
      }


    If you haven't already installed Darwin Ports, you can find easy instructions for doing so at the main Darwin Ports page.

    Once Darwin Ports has been installed, in a terminal window and while online, type the following and hit return:


      %  cd /opt/local/bin/portslocation/dports/auctex
      % sudo port install auctex
      Password:
    You will then be prompted for your root password, which you should enter. You may have to wait for a few minutes while the software is retrieved from the network and installed for you. Y ou should see something that looks similar to:

      ---> Fetching auctex
      ---> Verifying checksum for auctex
      ---> Extracting auctex
      ---> Configuring auctex
      ---> Building auctex with target all
      ---> Staging auctex into destroot
      ---> Installing auctex
    - Make sure that you do not close the terminal window while Darwin Ports is working. Once the software has been installed, you can find further information about using auctex with these commands:
      %  man auctex
      % apropos auctex
      % which auctex
      % locate auctex

     Where to find more information:

    Darwin Ports



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