[tlbuild] FreeType2 Issue on OpenBSD

[Edd Barrett]

Hi Karl,

Thanks for looking into this.

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 7:44 PM, Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org> wrote:
>    % fmtutil-sys --all
>    ...
>    fmtutil: /tl/Master/texmf-var/web2c/pdftex/mptopdf.fmt installed.
>    fmtutil: Infinite recursion detected, giving up!.
>
> Sorry, I can't reproduce this.  I saw that mptopdf needs metafun, but I
> didn't see anything "infinite" about it.
> The complete log might help.

No problem.

http://students.dec.bmth.ac.uk/ebarrett/files/fmtutil.log

>
> And, what is the complete contents of your fmtutil.cnf?

http://students.dec.bmth.ac.uk/ebarrett/files/fmtutil.cnf

It came from either the Master svn checkout or the build (if it makes
one). Should be fine.

>
> Finally, if you just run
>  mptopdf line.mp
> (trivial source attached) does it autogenerate the fmt's ok or do you
> get the same problem?

Hmm, it doesnt appear to generate any format, but works.
The generated pdf is here:
http://students.dec.bmth.ac.uk/ebarrett/files/line-0.pdf

---8<---
dec170% mptopdf line.mp

MPtoPDF 1.3.3 : running 'texexec --mptex    line.mp'
TeXExec | processing graphic 'line.mp'
This is MetaPost, Version 1.004 (Web2C 7.5.6)
(/tl/Master/texmf/web2c/natural.tcx)
(line.mp [0]
metafun 2008-5-20 23:8
 )
1 output file written: line.0
Transcript written on line.log.
TeXExec | runtime: 0.163084
This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.1415926-1.40.8-beta-20080506 (Web2C 7.5.6)
 %&-line parsing enabled.
[MP to PDF] (./line.0) [warning: the width is less than 1in]
[warning: the height is less than 1in] [1]
Output written on line.pdf (1 page, 1306 bytes).
Transcript written on line.log.

MPtoPDF 1.3.3 : line is converted to line-0.pdf
---8<---

Hopefully a clue is in some of this information somewhere.

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Best Regards

Edd

http://students.dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/ebarrett