rel-0-8; generating preamble fails

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Dumping a preview format fails:
Running `Preview-LaTeX' on `neutronbook' with ``\1latex -ini "&\1latex" prv_neutronbook.ini  "\nonstopmode\PassOptionsToPackage{active,tightpage,auctex}{preview}\AtBeginDocument{\ifx\ifPreview\undefined\RequirePackage[displaymath,floats,graphics,textmath,sections,footnotes]{preview}\fi}\input{neutronbook.tex}"''
/bin/sh: line 1: 1latex: command not found

Preview-LaTeX exited abnormally with code 127 at Mon Apr 12 12:28:13

Emacs  : XEmacs 21.4 (patch 9) "Informed Management" [Lucid] (i686-pc-linux) of Sat Oct 19 2002 on bjoern
Package: rel-0-8

current state:
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Output from running `gs -h':
AFPL Ghostscript 7.00 (2001-04-08)
Copyright (C) 2001 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA.  All rights reserved.
Usage: gs [switches] [file1.ps file2.ps ...]
Most frequently used switches: (you can use # in place of =)
 -dNOPAUSE           no pause after page   | -q       `quiet', fewer messages
 -g<width>x<height>  page size in pixels   | -r<res>  pixels/inch resolution
 -sDEVICE=<devname>  select device         | -dBATCH  exit after last file
 -sOutputFile=<file> select output file: - for stdout, |command for pipe,
                                         embed %d or %ld for page #
Input formats: PostScript PostScriptLevel1 PostScriptLevel2 PDF
Available devices:
   x11 bbox x11alpha x11cmyk x11gray2 x11gray4 x11mono bmpmono bmpgray
   bmpsep1 bmpsep8 bmp16 bmp256 bmp16m bmp32b deskjet djet500 laserjet