[OS X TeX] El Capitan, TL-2015 and metapost
Eric van der Oord
eric.vanderoord at gmail.com
Sat Nov 28 17:05:03 CET 2015
Thank you !
Problem solved temporarily with a poor man's method :
copying some missing files from
/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/metapost/context/base
to
/usr/local/texlive/2015/texmf-dist/metapost/context/base
running sudo -H mktexlsr
Best Regards
Eric
> Le 28 nov. 2015 à 15:30, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> a écrit :
>
>> On Nov 28, 2015, at 8:07 AM, Franck Pastor <franck.pastor at skynet.be> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Le 28 nov. 2015 à 13:51, Eric van der Oord <eric.vanderoord at gmail.com> a écrit :
>>
>>> Hi all
>>>
>>> After upgrading to El Capitan and installing texlive 2015, I have a metapost (used with the emp package) problem :
>>>
>>> Console gives the following error :
>>>
>>> (./alg1fig9.texThis is MetaPost, version 1.999 (TeX Live 2015) (kpathsea version 6.2.1)
>>> (/usr/local/texlive/2015/texmf-dist/metapost/base/mpost.mp
>>> (/usr/local/texlive/2015/texmf-dist/metapost/base/plain.mp
>>> Preloading the plain mem file, version 1.005) ) (./Algebre-1.mp
>>> ! I can't open file `mp-spec'.
>>> l.9 \input mp-spec
>>>
>>>
>>> Looking into my hard disk, I find an old file :
>>>
>>> /usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/metapost/context/base/mp-spec.mp
>>>
>>> and a new file :
>>>
>>> /usr/local/texlive/2015/texmf-dist/metapost/context/base/mp-spec.mpii
>>>
>>>
>>> For some reason, the suffix has changed.
>>>
>>> Is it wise to copy the old file into the new directory ?
>>>
>>> Best Regards
>>>
>>> Eric
>>>
>>>
>>
>> It seems that the file mp-spec.mp has been replaced by two files, mp-spec.mpii and mp-spec.mpiv, the former to be used by ConTeXt-mII and the latter by ConTeXt-mIV. I would suggest to change the program which calls mp-spec.mp and make it call mp-spec.mpii instead. It this program is part of the MetaPost core files, it may be necessary to warn the MetaPost maintainers of this bug.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> F. Pastor
>
> Howdy,
>
> I'd guess you should change the line to
>
> \input mp-spec.mpii
>
> and see if it works. 2010 is a long time ago and, with the support of LuaTeX by ConTeXt (mkiv) as well as the, historical, pdftex (mkii) things will undoubtedly have changed.
>
> PS: this is definitely a guess!
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
>
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Best Regards
Eric
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