Re: compilation is stuck!

[Ed L Cashin <ecashin@coe.uga.edu>]

Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> writes:

> At 01:15 PM 11/2/00 +0100, Denis B. Roegel wrote:
> >
> >> In what sense? It runsok here. 
> >
> >With 
> >
> >\setupcolors[state=start]
> >\starttext
> >\startMPenvironment
> >  \setupbodyfont[pos]
> >\stopMPenvironment
> >\startMPcode
> >  draw btex Meta is a female lion! etex
> >  xysized (\the\textwidth,\the\textheight);
> >\stopMPcode
> >\stoptext
> 
> I cannot get this hung, nor with pdftex, pdfetex, dvips output, dvipsone
> output, pdf output. Can someone else try this on his linux box? [with
> latest version that has metafun support]

When texexec looks hung it is often asking for input:

              run time : 1 seconds
       dvi to metapost : mpgraph
              metapost : mpgraph
                format : metafun
This is MetaPost, Version 0.641 (Web2C 7.3.1)
Sorry, I can't find the mem file `metafun.mem'; will try `mpost.mem'.
(mpgraph.mp)
*

... and it's waiting for the user to type a response.  I have never
gotten used to working with tex interactively, so I use makefiles that
redirect texexec's standard input from /dev/null.  

Doing that you get quick failure instead of hanging, so you can check
the log files.

Try something like this:

        texexec --pdf test < /dev/null

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