Strange behaviour when compiling auctex from MELPA in Emacs (w32 version) in Cygwin

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I tried to compile the auctex from Emacs MELPA. The version is: 11.88.4

When I first open a .tex file, compile AUCTEX, and change to "TeX-latex-mode", Emacs will work properly, the menu bar also change to latex state.

However, when I close Emacs, restart Emacs again and open a .tex file, Emacs will give:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Autoloading failed to define function TeX-latex-mode")

And auctex will not work...

It seems the problem is in autoloading certain state when initialize the auctex for a tex file.

Any help?

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This function is located in latex.el. Does locate-library latex find it? – Andrew Swann
That is the problem. After I compiling auctex, the command gives the right location, '~/.emacs.d/elpa/auctex-11.88.4/latex.elc.' But once I close and reopen Emacs again, it gives the wrong location -- the folder where I defined my own lisp. What should I do? – X.Arthur
Sounds like a load-path problem. Do you set that in your init file? Or perhaps some initialisation that needs to be delayed to after the package is loaded... What is your emacs version? – Andrew Swann
24.5. I have someting like (add-to-list 'load-path' "~/.emacs.d/x_lisp/"), but that should not affect the auctex, shouldn it? – X.Arthur
Do you have other packages loaded and working? – Andrew Swann

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Problem Solved! My mistake.

I modularised my init.el and separated the LaTeX settings to latex.el, which conflict with the latex.el in auctex.

I renamed the file to latex_settings and everyting works fine. (A small warning that no docstring for 'tex-start-shell', but that's fine.)