From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/7592 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Fwd: BOUNCE ntg-context@let.uu.nl: Non-member submission from [Gerben Wierda ] Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 17:04:13 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20020409170352.03570418@server-1> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035398041 20434 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:34:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:34:01 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:7592 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:7592 > > >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/ > > > > > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, send email to with > > "unsubscribe macosx-tex" (no quotes) in the body. > > For additional HELP, send email to with > > "help" (no quotes) in the body. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- fall-back web server: www.pragma-ade.nl -------------------------------------------------------------------------