[tex-live] Error during format generation

Philipp Stephani st_philipp at yahoo.de
Sat Nov 20 14:30:09 CET 2010


Am 20.11.2010 um 14:05 schrieb Taco Hoekwater:

> On 11/20/2010 01:42 PM, Philipp Stephani wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I have two different TeX Live 2010 systems, one on OS X (MacTeX 2010), one on Linux, and on both format generation of the MetaFun format fails regularly. The tlmgr error is:
>> Error: `mpost -ini  -jobname=metafun -progname=mpost metafun.mp' failed
> 
>> The file metafun.log contains only the following:
> 
> Could it be that the log you posted was from an earlier run?

Indeed, the log file is old, thanks for the hint.

> Because
> that looked perfectly fine. Perhaps you can capture the terminal
> output?

When I run the command manually, everything seems to work:
~ # mpost -ini  -jobname=metafun -progname=mpost metafun.mp && echo success || echo failure
This is MetaPost, version 1.503 (kpathsea version 6.0.0)
(/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/metapost/context/base/metafun.mp
(/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/metapost/context/base/mp-base.mp
Preloading the plain mem file, version 0.63)
(/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/metapost/context/base/mp-tool.mp)
(/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/metapost/context/base/mp-spec.mp)
(/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/metapost/context/base/mp-core.mp)
(/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/metapost/context/base/mp-page.mp)
(/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/metapost/context/base/mp-text.mp)
(/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/metapost/context/base/mp-txts.mp)
(/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/metapost/context/base/mp-shap.mp)
(/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/metapost/context/base/mp-butt.mp)
(/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/metapost/context/base/mp-char.mp)
(/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/metapost/context/base/mp-step.mp)
(/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/metapost/context/base/mp-grph.mp)
(/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/metapost/context/base/mp-figs.mp)
(/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/metapost/context/base/mp-mlib.mp)
(/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/metapost/context/base/mp-grid.mp
(/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/metapost/context/base/mp-form.mp
(/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/metapost/base/string.mp)
(/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/metapost/base/marith.mp
(/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/metapost/base/string.mp))))
(/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/metapost/context/base/mp-func.mp) )
Transcript written on metafun.log.
success

Also fmtutil-sys --byfmt metafun seems to work. Could this be related to the fact that I use TLcontrib? Maybe the versions of MetaFun and MetaPost don't match directly after updating from the main repository?


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