Re: MetaPost 1.004 announcement

["Thomas A. Schmitz" <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de>]

On May 1, 2008, at 11:24 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:

> The MetaPost team is happy to announce a new release of MetaPost:
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> MetaPost 1.004
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> The sources and a win32 package can be downloaded immediately from
>
>   http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/metapost/
>
> This release will also be available from CTAN soon, and it will be
> included in the next TeXLive. The source package should compile  
> normally
> on all systems that are capable of compiling a modern web2c-based TeX
> distribution.

Hi Taco,

I have two questions/problems with the new release:

1. for my linux box, I just grabbed the linux tarball, but the  
binaries in there still declare they're version 1.003. Is that an  
oversight, or are those indeed old binaries (and you forgot to pack  
the new ones? :-)

2. On OS X 10.5 (intel), compilation aborts with this message:

creating Makefile
creating doc/Makefile
creating lib/Makefile
creating man/Makefile
creating mpware/Makefile
creating mpdir/Makefile
creating web2c/Makefile
creating window/Makefile
cat: ../../../src/texk/web2c/window/Makefile.in: No such file or  
directory
creating fmtutil.cnf
creating c-auto.h
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -I. -I../../../../src/texk/web2c/web2c -I../.. - 
I../../../../src/texk/web2c/.. -I.. -I../../../../src/texk/web2c/ 
web2c/..  -g -O2  -c ../../../../src/texk/web2c/web2c/kps.c
In file included from ../../../../src/texk/web2c/../kpathsea/config.h: 
78,
                  from ../../../../src/texk/web2c/web2c/../config.h:44,
                  from ../../../../src/texk/web2c/web2c/web2c.h:3,
                  from ../../../../src/texk/web2c/web2c/kps.c:26:
../../../../src/texk/web2c/../kpathsea/c-std.h:57: error: syntax error  
before '*' token
../../../../src/texk/web2c/../kpathsea/c-std.h:57: error: conflicting  
types for 'calloc'
../../../../src/texk/web2c/../kpathsea/c-std.h:57: error: conflicting  
types for 'malloc'
../../../../src/texk/web2c/../kpathsea/c-std.h:57: error: conflicting  
types for 'realloc'
/usr/include/stdlib.h:176: error: previous declaration of 'realloc'  
was here
../../../../src/texk/web2c/../kpathsea/c-std.h:57: warning: data  
definition has no type or storage class
../../../../src/texk/web2c/web2c/kps.c: In function 'uppercasify':
../../../../src/texk/web2c/web2c/kps.c:36: warning: initialization  
from incompatible pointer type
make: *** [kps.o] Error 1

Any pointers?

Thomas
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