From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/46461 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans van der Meer Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: mpost finds BAD TFM Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:52:52 +0100 Message-ID: <09C701E7-65F0-4F8A-8EE6-95BDF51A22EA@uva.nl> References: <1924EAF8-FAF8-4B6F-95EB-9F187711EF36@uva.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v930.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed"; DelSp="yes" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1229979459 29925 80.91.229.12 (22 Dec 2008 20:57:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:57:39 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Dec 22 21:58:45 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LErrC-0004eJ-Kw for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:58:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id AED9D1FC11; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:57:15 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 17045-04-4; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:56:29 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 707C01FBC5; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:55:45 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 292EF1FB98 for ; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:55:44 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 17045-04-2 for ; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:55:01 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp-vbr7.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr7.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.27]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6B541FC74 for ; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:52:53 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.130] (a82-95-102-36.adsl.xs4all.nl [82.95.102.36]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp-vbr7.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id mBMKqrSP052806 for ; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:52:53 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from H.vanderMeer@uva.nl) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.930.3) X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:46461 Archived-At: On 22 dec 2008, at 20:52, Aditya Mahajan wrote: > On Mon, 22 Dec 2008, Hans van der Meer wrote: > >> NASTY PROBLEM WITH READING TFM FILES IN LATEST METAPOST >> >> A nasty problem has surfaced that Taco Hoekwater cannot solve, >> because it does not occur on his system. My system is Apple >> Macintosh 10.5.6 and I am using the command "sh build.sh" to >> compile metapost-1.101. >> >> After compiling and generating with "mpost --ini mpost" the error >> message below result when calling "make" in the manual-directory of >> the distribution. It signals a bad tfm file, I guess because the >> wrong number of bytes is read. Some 16/32/64 bit issue perhaps? >> Taco has not found it and as his compile now runs "lint-free" it is >> difficult to imagine what can be wrong. >> Are there people in this group (preferably on Macintosh) who find >> the same thing happening? And then are far more apt with debuggers >> than I am? >> >> Many thanks in advance. >> Hans van der Meer >> >> >> This says the logfile of the mpost run, the programcode involved is >> from source file tfmin.w: >> >> This is MetaPost, version 1.101 (kpathsea version 3.5.7) (mem=mpost >> 2008.12.22) 22 DEC 2008 17:53 >> **mpman > > Why is mpost 1.101 being used? The minimals have 1.110, so the > sources should be more recent. Could the error be due to something > wrong in the $PATH? > > Aditya > ___________________________________________________________________________________ The answer is: I took the latest stable version dated december 11, 2008 from http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/metapost/ and that says 1.101. I do not work with minimals and I avoid beta's too. But the version I tried above came from branch/1.1 in the svn repository and was tried because Taco requested it in relation to the above problem. 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