Re: status of minimals

[Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 13:33, Hans Hagen wrote:
> Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 20:09, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, 11 Sep 2009, Mohamed Bana wrote:
>>>
>>>> no that results in an empty page.  aren't the formats generated when i
>>>> run
>>>> first-setup.sh?
>>>
>>> They do, so I am guessing that something is going wrong. Can you try by
>>> redownloading first-setup.sh afresh and trying again?
>>
>> I seriously think that something is wrong with luatex formats (if I
>> remember correctly due to seemingly different paths).
>>
>> Hans, would it be possible to generate metafun format on the fly, the
>> same way as luatex format? That would be the best solution.
>
> in tex.rb patch aroun dline 678:
>
>            else
>                report("unable to make format due to lack of permissions")
>                texformatpath = ''
>                setvariable('error','no permissions to write')
>            end
>            if not mpsformats then
>                # we want metafun to be in sync
>                setvariable('mpsformats',defaultmpsformats)
>                mpsformats = validmpsformat(getarrayvariable('mpsformats'))
>            end
>        else
>            texformatpath = ''
>        end
>
> so, add the "if not mpsformats then .. end"

Hello Hans,

Thanks a lot, but for some reason this doesn't help. I'll take a
closer look once I'm back (in October) for both mkii and mkiv.

Mojca

PS: I don't dare to claim anything, but from my faint memories I think
that metafun format doesn't regenerate once a new version of metapost
comes out (I may be wrong, I would need to test, this really happens
in extremely rare cases).

For mkii the above solution doesn't work in circumstances where I
expected it to work (or maybe I don't understand how it's supposed to
work), but I'll try to check later.

PPS: I need to test for the behaviour being claimed in this mail; once I'm back.
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