Bug#182211: tetex-extra: rboxes.mp broken

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 23.02.03 Esben Haabendal Sorensen (esben@haabendal.dk) wrote:

Hi,

> Running the following file through mpost fails:
>   
> bart@zaphod % mpost bug.mp
> ~
> This is MetaPost, Version 0.641 (Web2C 7.4.5)
> (bug.mp (/usr/share/texmf/metapost/base/boxes.mp)
> (/usr/share/texmf/metapost/base/rboxes.mp
> (/usr/share/texmf/metapost/base/boxes.mp))
> >> clearboxesclearboxes
> ! Isolated expression.
> <to be read again>
>                    ;
> endfig->scantokens.extra_endfig;
>                                 shipit;endgroup
> l.7 endfig
>           ;
> ? q
> OK, entering batchmodezsh: 12560 exit 1     mpost bug.mp
> bart@zaphod %
> 
Try the following patch to boxes.mp:

<snip>
--- .texmf/metapost/base/boxes.mp	Tue Mar 26 00:00:00 1996
+++ /usr/share/texmf/metapost/base/boxes.mp	Fri May 22 22:23:15 1998
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@
 
 extra_beginfig := extra_beginfig
   & "boxjoin();save pic_,sproc_,pproc_;def clearboxes=enddef;";
-extra_endfig := extra_endfig & "clearboxes";
+extra_endfig := extra_endfig & "clearboxes;";
 
 
 % Given a list of box names, give whatever default values are necessary
<snap>

Your file run through smoothly on stable, hence I searched for the
differences between stable and unstable and found that one. If that
helps you CTAN is broken.

H.
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