Bug#245599: tetex-bin: mpost always fails with "Fatal mem file error; I'm stymied"
Seth LaForge <sethml@ofb.net> schrieb:
> I tried installing tetex-extra, and mpost still doesn't work:
>
> % mpost foo
> This is MetaPost, Version 0.641 (Web2C 7.4.5)
> (Fatal mem file error; I'm stymied)
Hm. Could you please repeat this with
mpost -kpathsea-debug=-1 foo 2> mpost.log
and send us the mpost.log file?
> So to me this seems to be an actual bug, not a packaging split issue.
Yes, it seems so.
> If the issue is that tetex-extra needs to be installed (which I'm no
> longer convinced of), then the package description for tetex-bin
> should mention that the user will have to install tetex-extra to make
> mpost work; otherwise you're likely to get a lot more bug reports and
> frustrated users one sarge is released.
Yes, we should put something like this into tetex-bin's description.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
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