[tlbuild] metapost 1.5 in texlive

[Taco Hoekwater]

Hi,

I just had a busy afternoon first synching the current texlive tree with 
svn update, then doing a complete build (well, minus xdvik as
I don't have Xaw installed).

The build went fine afaict, ending with (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu):

make world done.

real    16m49.596s
user    10m25.491s
sys     1m40.468s
+ echo 0

./Build: 333 executables in /opt/tex/texlive/Build/source/inst/bin.
done Tue Apr 5 14:13:56 CEST 2011

Then I imported the sources for metapost 1.503. This is not the final
version (there is going to be a 1.504 sometime in the coming week)
but it allowed me to test the import (the source layout will remain
identical, just a few extra bugfixes, including some proposed by PEB).

Another complete build later, with all the mpost files included,
it still works:

make world done.

real    19m47.951s
user    13m13.738s
sys     1m53.632s
+ echo 0

./Build: 333 executables in /opt/tex/texlive/Build/source/inst/bin.
done Tue Apr 5 16:08:43 CEST 2011

Notes:

* because mpost 1.50X no longer has .mem files, I have disabled
   the second part of the test (as I have no time to change it
   properly, that is planned for next year. In fact, it is likely
   that the mptrap test will be completely replaced by the new
   metapost unit test suite from Nicola Vitacolonna).

* similarly, the metapost package file needed to be adjusted so that
   it no longer tries to run fmtutil.

* Adding the new sources to subversion forced me to do an 'autoreconf'
   in texk/web2c. I am using autoconf 2.68, and the resultant changes to
   configure and Makefile.in were not exactly minimal unfortunately,
   someone may want to correct that by re-running autoreconf with
   whatever version of autotools is actually in use for texlive 2011.

All of this is in revision 21975.

Best wishes,
Taco