[tex-live] metapost and relative paths (labels fail)

[Lars Madsen]

a bit more careful this time

assume a dir structure:

t2.mp
sub/t1.mp

t2.mp:

beginfig(1);
draw fullcircle scaled 3cm;
label(btex $A$ etex, origin);
endfig;
end;

t1.mp:

verbatimtex
%&latex
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
etex
input "../t2.mp"
end;


if I go to 'sub' and run

mpost t1.mp

I get the following error:

This is MetaPost, version 1.208 (kpathsea version 5.0.0)
(./t1.mp (../t2.mp
 >> t2.mp
 >> t2.mpx
! Unable to make mpx file.
l.3 label(btex
                $A$ etex, origin);
Transcript written on t1.log.

it seems the labeling feature want to create a mpx file for the included 
file

this is a bit contrary to the way TeX handles input.

Is this a feature or a bug in mpost?

if t2.mp is moved to

sub/subsub/t2.mp

and we include that instead, I get a similar error.

Any ideas as to what have changed, and how this can be fixed?

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/daleif