[tex-eplain] eplain usepackage problems on Mac OS X and cygwin

[Dorai Sitaram]

Loading LaTeX packages in eplain in teTeX on Mac OS and Cygwin seems to
have some glitches.  It works fine in Solaris teTeX though.  Would someone
know a workaround?  As far as I can tell, the files concerned have all been
stable for many years, so there can't be some update I'm missing.

Here is my sample file and the corresponding log.  lambda.1 is an EPS file
created with MetaPost.  You can use anything for lambda.1, e.g.,
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/~dorai/tex2page/lambda.1 .

Thanks,

Dorai


% --- m.tex ---

\input eplain
\beginpackages
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\endpackages

\DeclareGraphicsRule{*}{eps}{*}{}

regular background color
{\color{blue} blue}

\includegraphics{lambda.1}

\bye

% --- end m.tex ---


When I run pdfetex on m.tex, it fails (on Mac OS X and Cygwin only, as far
as I can tell), with the following message:


This is pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) (format=pdfetex 2005.5.18)  17 APR 2006 10:00
entering extended mode
 file:line:error style messages enabled.
 %&-line parsing enabled.
**m
(./m.tex (./eplain.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/plain/graphics/miniltx.tex
\@tempcnta=\count50
\@tempcntb=\count51
\@tempdima=\dimen55
\@tempdimb=\dimen56
\@tempdimc=\dimen57
\@tempboxa=\box19
\@tempskipa=\skip26
\@tempskipb=\skip27
\@temptokena=\toks26
\leftmarginv=\dimen58
\leftmarginvi=\dimen59
\@ovxx=\dimen60
\@ovyy=\dimen61
\@ovdx=\dimen62
\@ovdy=\dimen63
\@ovro=\dimen64
\@ovri=\dimen65
\@xdim=\dimen66
\@ydim=\dimen67
\@linelen=\dimen68
\@dashdim=\dimen69
\fboxsep=\dimen70
\fboxrule=\dimen71
)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/color.sty
color.sty: 1999/02/16 v1.0i Standard LaTeX Color (DPC)

(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/color.cfg
color.cfg: 2005/02/03 v1.3 color configuration of teTeX/TeXLive
)
color: Driver file: pdftex.def

(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/pdftex.def
pdftex.def: 2002/06/19 v0.03k graphics/color for pdftex
\Gread at gobject=\count52
))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/graphicx.sty
graphicx.sty: 1999/02/16 v1.0f Enhanced LaTeX Graphics (DPC,SPQR)

(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty
keyval.sty: 1999/03/16 v1.13 key=value parser (DPC)
\KV at toks@=\toks27
)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/graphics.sty
graphics.sty: 2001/07/07 v1.0n Standard LaTeX Graphics (DPC,SPQR)

(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/trig.sty
trig.sty: 1999/03/16 v1.09 sin cos tan (DPC)
)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/graphics.cfg
graphics.cfg: 2005/02/03 v1.3 graphics configuration of teTeX/TeXLive
)
graphics: Driver file: pdftex.def
)
\Gin at req@height=\dimen72
\Gin at req@width=\dimen73
)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/supp-pdf.tex
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/supp-mis.tex
loading : Context Support Macros / Miscellaneous (2004.10.26)
\protectiondepth=\count53
/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/supp-mis.tex:163: Incomplete \iffalse; all te
xt was ignored after line 160.
<inserted text> 
                \fi 
<to be read again> 
                   \newdimen 
l.163   \newdimen
                 \scratchdimen % 16
? x
No pages of output.