Hello,<br><br>I am using the default implementation of TeXLive 2010 which provides MetaPost 1.211<br>on Windows 7. I'm getting a fatal error on <a href="http://texnum.mp">texnum.mp</a> on the simplest possible use<br>
of graph. Here is the simplest possible test case that shows the error:<br><br> input graph<br> end<br><br><br>Here is the error message I get.<br><br> C:\texlive\2010\bin\win32\mpost xtest<br> This is MetaPost, version 1.211 (Web2C 2010) (kpathsea version 6.0.0)<br>
(./<a href="http://xtest.mp">xtest.mp</a> (c:/TeXLive/2010/texmf-dist/metapost/base/<a href="http://graph.mp">graph.mp</a><br> (c:/TeXLive/2010/texmf-dist/metapost/base/<a href="http://marith.mp">marith.mp</a><br> (c:/TeXLive/2010/texmf-dist/metapost/base/<a href="http://string.mp">string.mp</a>))<br>
(c:/TeXLive/2010/texmf-dist/metapost/base/<a href="http://format.mp">format.mp</a><br> (c:/TeXLive/2010/texmf-dist/metapost/base/<a href="http://string.mp">string.mp</a>)<br> (c:/TeXLive/2010/texmf-dist/metapost/base/texnum.mpfatal: Command failed: etex -<br>
-parse-first-line --interaction=nonstopmode mpa05524.tex; see mpxerr.log<br> >> <a href="http://texnum.mp">texnum.mp</a><br> >> texnum.mpx<br> ! Unable to make mpx file.<br> l.17 init_numbers(btex<br>
$-$etex, btex$1$etex, btex${\times}10$etex,<br> Transcript written on xtest.log.<br><br><br>Here is the information I get when running etex.<br><br> C:\texlive\2010\bin\win32\etex --parse-first-line --interaction=nonstopmode mpxerr.tex<br>
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.11 (Web2C 2010)<br> restricted \write18 enabled.<br> entering extended mode<br> (./mpxerr.tex [1] [1] [1] [1] [1] [1] )<br> Output written on mpxerr.dvi (6 pages, 672 bytes).<br>
Transcript written on mpxerr.log.<br><br>Is there something I need to configure in TeXLive or my .mp file in<br>order to get this to work? Or is there some other debugging I can do to determine<br>how to resolve this problem?<br>
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