Re: ! Unable to make mpx file.

Re: ! Unable to make mpx file.

[Steve MC Han]

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  I was wondering if you could give me some direction. I'm having this error message in doing metapost.
   
   
  ! Unable to make mpx file.
l.78 label.bot(btex
                    $\hbox{\sf Rectangle}$ etex, (0,-.6u));
   
   
  I looked through internet and found this site,
   
  http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2002/000272.html
   
  which describes exactly the same error messages.
   
  Is there any solution for this? I didn't have any problem with exactly the same file before installed TexLive 2007.
   
  If you have some solution to give, I would appreciate it very much.
   
    
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Re: ! Unable to make mpx file.

[nicola]

In article <227536.60644.qm@web55306.mail.re4.yahoo.com>,
 Steve MC Han <hmc0907@yahoo.com> wrote:

>   I was wondering if you could give me some direction. I'm having this error 
>   message in doing metapost.
>    
>    
>   ! Unable to make mpx file.
> l.78 label.bot(btex
>                     $\hbox{\sf Rectangle}$ etex, (0,-.6u));
>    

I don't know if that can help, but I had a similar problem some time ago.
Try

tex --parse-first-line --interaction=nonstopmode mpxerr.tex

to see the error message. In my case, it turned out that the problem was 
format-related: latex.fmt had been written by pdfetex, but makempx was 
calling tex instead of pdfetex. The solution was to add the line:

TEX=pdfetex

to texmf.cnf. I was experiencing the problem with gwTeX, though: since I 
am using TeX Live 2007 I have no problem at all. For your reference, 
this is the thread:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.metapost/323/focus=330

Nicola