On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 7:08 PM, Hans van der Meer <H.vanderMeer@uva.nl>wrote:

> NASTY PROBLEM WITH READING TFM FILES IN LATEST METAPOST
>
> A nasty problem has surfaced that Taco Hoekwater cannot solve, because it
> does not occur on his system. My system is Apple Macintosh 10.5.6 and I am
> using the command "sh build.sh" to compile metapost-1.101.
>
> After compiling and generating with "mpost --ini mpost" the error message
> below result when calling "make" in the manual-directory of the
> distribution. It signals a bad tfm file, I guess because the wrong number of
> bytes is read. Some 16/32/64 bit issue perhaps? Taco has not found it and as
> his compile now runs "lint-free" it is difficult to imagine what can be
> wrong.
> Are there people in this group (preferably on Macintosh) who find the same
> thing happening? And then are far more apt with debuggers than I am?
>
> Many thanks in advance.
> Hans van der Meer
>
I'm not able to reproduce this problem in my linux box with texlive 2008

Here is  my steps

1) downloaded metapost-1.101-src.tar.bz2 and compiled with ./build.sh :
OK

2) copied mpost to texlive2008 standard bin directory,
(in my case  texlive/2008/bin/i386-linux)
activated texlive2008
(cd texlive/2008; . setuptex ;)
remade all format
 fmtutil --all; mktexlsr
OK

3) cd metapost-1.101/manual-test; make
OK

 7,3K 2008-12-22 22:38 grdemo-doc.pdf
 3,0K 2008-12-22 22:38 grdemo.pdf
 363K 2008-12-22 22:38 mpboxes.pdf
 457K 2008-12-22 22:38 mpgraph.pdf
 193K 2008-12-22 22:38 mpintro.pdf
 760K 2008-12-22 22:38 mpman.pdf

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luigi