[tex-live] how to upgrade TL2007's metapost to 1.000 ?

[George N. White III]

On 5/11/07, luoyi <luoyi.ly at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > What platform?
>
> My box is Slackware 11.0 & Win XP SP2.
>
> >
> > TL doesn't do updates.  For the texmf trees you can use the miktex
> > package manager, but
> > for binaries you have to compile the sources.  If you are on a
> > mainstream *x, compiling
> > should be straightforward (I had no problems on Fedora Core 5), but
> > the install requires manual copying the results of the compile over to
> > the TL tree.
> >
> > For Win32, check whether Akira Kakuto has the new version in w32tex.
>
>
> metapost's src release tarball contains the different(older) version
> of kpathsea&web2c with TL2007's src. so how can I make it upgrade to
> TL2007's version ?

Form the ChangeLog the only difference is:

2007-02-02  Karl Berry  <karl at tug.org>

	* texmf.in (OVFFONTS): search for vf.
	(OFMFONTS): explicitly adding TFMFONTS seems unnecessary.
	From Hans and Taco, 25 Jan 2007.

If you use the TL texmf.cnf this won't matter.

-- 
George N. White III <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia