Re: metapost rebuilds mpost.mem everytime

[Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>]

Hallo Norbert, hallo Frank,

Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:
> On Mit, 21 Mär 2007, Frank Küster wrote:
>>    TEXFORMATS = .;$TEXMF/web2c/{$engine,}
>> -  MFBASES = .;$TEXMF/web2c
>> -  MPMEMS = .;$TEXMF/web2c
>> +  MFBASES = .;$TEXMF/web2c/{$engine,}
>> +  MPMEMS = .;$TEXMF/web2c/{$engine,}
>> -TEXFORMATS = .;$TEXMF/web2c/{$engine,}
>> +TEXFORMATS = .;$TEXMF/web2c/{$engine,}//
>
> Without the --engine variable it needs the // at the end, because
> engine=unset, but the formats itself should be found when running the
> program *WITHOUT* the //

I applied all changes above and ran fmtutil-sys --all, but now I get this
error:

% mpost resolution.mp 
This is MetaPost, Version 0.993 (Web2C 7.5.6)
(resolution.mp (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/metapost/base/TEX.mp)makempx: Command failed: tex --parse-first-line --interaction=nonstopmode mpxerr.tex; see mpxerr.log

>> resolution.mp
>> resolution.mpx
! Unable to make mpx file.
l.64 label(btex
                $R$ etex, p[0]-(0,3)*le) ;
Transcript written on resolution.log.
zsh: exit 1     mpost resolution.mp
% cat mpxerr.log 
% tex --parse-first-line --interaction=nonstopmode mpxerr.tex
This is TeXk, Version 3.141592 (Web2C 7.5.6)
 %&-line parsing enabled.
---! /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/latex.fmt was written by pdftex
(Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
zsh: exit 1     tex --parse-first-line --interaction=nonstopmode mpxerr.tex

I can delete and rebuild the file latex.fmt with fmtutil-sys --missing,
but nothing changes.

Bye, Jörg.
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