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Fwd: BOUNCE ntg-context@let.uu.nl: Non-member submission from [Gerben Wierda <sherlock@rna.nl>]

[Hans Hagen]

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>
>A part of the reason for this, I have located (by method of lucky
>guess), and a workaround.
>
>The reason seems to be that fmtutil creates either mptopdf.efmt or
>metafun.mem (probably) in such a way that mpost crashes. I do not know
>why (yet).
>
>A workaround is to do the following in an empty directory:
>
>         mkdir youremptydir
>         cd youremptydir
>         sudo texexec --make
>         sudo mv *.efmt *.mem /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c
>
>This gets the formats as created by texexec in your format directory.
>After that, it works here.
>
>G
>
>On Tuesday, April 9, 2002, at 05:47 , flip phillips wrote:
>
> > Greetings- sorry to folks on both the ConTeXt and OS X TeX list for the
> > repetition.
> >
> > Recently, I did a nice clean install of teTeX via the i-Installer
> > mechanism. Now, I'm trying to build one of my presentations via
> > ConTeXt's presentation mechanism. ConTeXt generates the metapost files
> > just fine. I can get them to metapost by doing mpost -mem=metafun xxx.mp
> >
> > However, when TeX shop / texexec tries to metapost them mpost crashes
> > w/ an address violation (I have crash logging on in Console.app)
> >
> > This is strange, it will metapost fine manually, but not from within
> > tetex. I checked the shell_escape variable in texmf.cfg (there are two,
> > one in web2c and another in the highest level), set them to 't' (both
> > to be sure).
> >
> > Anyone with any ideas here?
> >
> > --
> > flip phillips
> > http://www.skidmore.edu/~flip/
> >
> >
> >
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