[metapost] mpx file ended unexpectedly

[Hans Hagen]

Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> Sanjoy Mahajan wrote:
>   
>> So I'm confused.  Is it a problem reading mptextmp.mp?  Or mpost getting
>> confused between fig.1 (the EPS figure) and fig.1.mp?
>>     
>
> It is confused between fig.1.mpx and fig.mpx.
>
> When MP searches for the mpx file, it changes the 'current extension'
> into mpx. So your 'fig.1' becomes 'fig.mpx'. I doubt it makes any
> sense to attempt to fix this on the executable side, because it is
> closely related to the system-dependent code that automatically adds
> a '.mp' extension.
>
>   
you can disable this multiple suffixes feature in the texmf.cnf file (at least for tex) 

Hans 

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