[tex-live] Asymptote on TL2016 - problem

Ken Moffat zarniwhoop at ntlworld.com
Tue Sep 20 01:48:18 CEST 2016


On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 03:39:58PM -0700, Paulo Ney de Souza wrote:
> The installation is definitely broken. Even after installation of:
> 
> apt-get install freeglut3
> apt-get install freeglut3-dev
> tlmgr update --all
> 
>  If you try to run it on the simple file (example from the tutorial):
> 
> settings.outformat = "pdf";
> settings.prc = false;
> size(5cm,0);
> import three;
> draw(unitsphere);
> 
> it will bom with:
> 
> /usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/asymptote/three.asy: 2905.13: runtime:
> 
> and no output is produced.
> 
> Paulo Ney
> 

Try adding -V when you invoke asy.  That fixed similar problems for
me (the 2905.13 rang a bell).

Is your distro built with gcc-6 ?

ĸen
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