From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/13767 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Re: first attempt to run mp (system error) Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 09:53:06 +0200 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20031008094621.02a62ef0@server-1> References: <000901c38ca6$8af7a0d0$0500a8c0@best> <1065598042.4594.36.camel@PawCooLinux> Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1065602978 16546 80.91.224.253 (8 Oct 2003 08:49:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 08:49:38 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Wed Oct 08 10:49:36 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A7A0m-0007Vg-00 for ; Wed, 08 Oct 2003 10:49:36 +0200 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7944610B5D; Wed, 8 Oct 2003 10:49:34 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from mail.solcon.net (mail.solcon.net [212.45.33.5]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84BA110B0E for ; Wed, 8 Oct 2003 10:18:32 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from server-1.pragma-net.nl (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by mail.solcon.net (8.11.6/8.9.3) with ESMTP id h988IRU06419 for ; Wed, 8 Oct 2003 10:18:27 +0200 Original-Received: by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 211DC17CB5; Wed, 8 Oct 2003 10:18:24 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from laptop-3.wxs.nl (unknown [10.100.1.191]) by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA9B517BC7 for ; Wed, 8 Oct 2003 08:18:19 +0000 (UTC) X-Sender: hagen-mail@server-1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl In-Reply-To: <1065598042.4594.36.camel@PawCooLinux> Original-References: <000901c38ca6$8af7a0d0$0500a8c0@best> <1065598042.4594.36.camel@PawCooLinux> Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:13767 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:13767 At 09:27 08/10/2003, you wrote: >Yes, indeed! But compiling code > > beginfig(100) > fill unitsquare scaled 123 withcolor (.2,.3,.4); > endfig; > end \starttext \startMPpage ... \stopMPpage \stoptext The last alert means "Memory violating". A remedy for such problems is >to regenerate the format. However the wrong metafun format was generated >with fmtutil and its default settings... Anyway I have regenerated >metafun format with command: are you on windows or on linux? > texexec --make --alone metafun > >Under linux the problem is even stranger. Running 'texexec --automprun >--pdf sample.tex' produce (as in windows) proper postscript code >mpgraph.1 (properly interpreted and displayed by ghostscript). But >running 'mpost mpgraph.mp' under linux still causes the "Memory >violating" error. PDF output also doesn't contain the graphic. > >Unfortunately mpgraph.log is empty (zero length file) and tex log file >doesn't inform about any problems. > >I'm afraid there are at least two independent problems: no graphic in >PDF output and "Memory violating" error (regenerating format can't help >here). ok, take one of: www.pragma-ade.com/context/mswintex.zip www.pragma-ade.com/context/linuxtex.zip (some 20Meg) this is what's needed for running context in there you'll find setuptex setuptex.bat on linux, make sure that you "chmod -R 755 *" the tree first the windows file has formats, in it (i'll remove them some day) but for linux you need to generate them. If all goes well, you'll have a system running now. (this one has tl8 binaries) Later i'll put the tree's on the site so that people can mirror them Hans