metapost crashing w/ current teTeX

metapost crashing w/ current teTeX

[flip phillips]

I've recently installed, via the new i-installer mechanism, teTeX, 
ghostscript.

Sadly, now when building presentations in ConTeXt, mpost is crashing 
with an address violation. When I manually mpost the file it doesn't 
crash, but I see:

[localhost] % mpost mpgraph.mp
This is MetaPost, Version 0.641 (Web2C 7.3.7)
(mpgraph.mp
! Number is too large (8000).
l.2 mpgraph:=8000

I'm not totally metapost-professional, but I'm assuming there is a 
configuration problem somewhere?

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flip phillips
http://www.skidmore.edu/~flip/

Re: metapost crashing w/ current teTeX

[Hans Hagen]

At 12:24 PM 4/6/2002 -0500, flip phillips wrote:
>I've recently installed, via the new i-installer mechanism, teTeX, 
>ghostscript.
>
>Sadly, now when building presentations in ConTeXt, mpost is crashing with 
>an address violation. When I manually mpost the file it doesn't crash, but 
>I see:
>
>[localhost] % mpost mpgraph.mp
>This is MetaPost, Version 0.641 (Web2C 7.3.7)
>(mpgraph.mp
>! Number is too large (8000).
>l.2 mpgraph:=8000
>
>I'm not totally metapost-professional, but I'm assuming there is a 
>configuration problem somewhere?

you need to run the metafun format;

the crash suprises me, esp when warningcheck := 0 ; the 8000 should be 
pretty valid

Hans
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