AUCTeX mirror no longer contains tex-site.el

[TOTBWF]

In #240, a full mirror of ELPA was created to work around to auctex not shipping build artifacts. It seems that emacs-straight/auctex@5471db4 removed the build artifacts for some reason, which means that (straight-use-package auctex) now fails due to tex-site.el being missing.

[raxod502]

Confirmed, and I ran into this today while upgrading.

This change from upstream sure looks relevant:

Guess we have to figure out (again) what GNU ELPA is doing, and replicate that (again).

[raxod502]

Ok, that comes from this upstream commit which deletes tex-site.el: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/auctex.git/commit/?h=main&id=6b3e109cd46c5c2d1d1379891bf79cf934246789 which was pushed on 2024-04-19.

Confirmed that GNU ELPA build system is somehow generating tex-site.el though - https://elpa.gnu.org/devel/auctex.html download of auctex-14.0.4.0.20240427.91120.tar gives an archive that does contain tex-site.el, and it is dated 2024-04-27.

[raxod502]

Well that'll do it, there is a new :make parameter, so I just have to update GNU ELPA Mirror to run the command given there if present.

[raxod502]

I've dug into this a bunch and it turns out that you have to make build/<package> which is a step we were not doing. But then it turns out that this has a billion dependencies on random things like Markdown converters and TeX Live and other undocumented things, and it also doesn't work without various hacks to the source code to do things like bind-mount /var and and and...

A stupider yet far superior option is to rewrite GNU ELPA Mirror to just pull the published tarballs. Then we don't ever have to maintain this again.

[raxod502]

Pushed radian-software/gnu-elpa-mirror@accb598 and rebuilding now. You can see https://github.com/emacs-straight/auctex/blob/a5552370bde473b1043f20a6385f89122af9af7d/tex-site.el is available after the latest commit.

[TOTBWF]

Thanks for fixing this so quickly, really appreciate it 🙂