[tlbuild] asy 2.16 sources committed for building

[Richard Koch]

Ken,


On May 31, 2012, at 5:44 AM, Ken Brown wrote:

> On 5/30/2012 8:59 PM, Karl Berry wrote:
>> John has released asymptote 2.16, and I've updated the sources in TL.
>> Those of you who are planning to build it, please give it a try.
> 
> Hi Karl,
> 
> I've built it for Cygwin, but when I try to run it, I get the following:
> 
> $ ./asy
> Welcome to Asymptote version 2.16 (to view the manual, type help)
> /usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf/asymptote/plain_strings.asy: 213.16: no matching function 'format(<overloaded>, real, <overloaded>)'
> /usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf/asymptote/plain_strings.asy: 213.17: use of variable 'defaultformat' is ambiguous
> /usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf/asymptote/plain_strings.asy: 213.33: use of variable 'locale' is ambiguous
> /usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf/asymptote/plain_markers.asy: 317.19: no matching function 'format(<overloaded>, real)'
> /usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf/asymptote/plain_markers.asy: 317.20: use of variable 'format' is ambiguous
> /usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf/asymptote/plain_markers.asy: 317.42: no matching function 'format(<overloaded>, real)'
> /usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf/asymptote/plain_markers.asy: 317.43: use of variable 'format' is ambiguous
> /usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf/asymptote/plain.asy: 261.9: use of variable 'file' is ambiguous
> /usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf/asymptote/plain.asy: 262.15: no matching function 'format(<overloaded>, real)'
> /usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf/asymptote/plain.asy: 262.16: use of variable 'format' is ambiguous
> /usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf/asymptote/plain.asy: 263.15: no matching function 'format(<overloaded>, real)'
> /usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf/asymptote/plain.asy: 263.16: use of variable 'format' is ambiguous
> /usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf/asymptote/plain.asy: 264.15: no matching function 'format(<overloaded>, real)'
> /usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf/asymptote/plain.asy: 264.16: use of variable 'format' is ambiguous
> /usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf/asymptote/plain.asy: 265.15: no matching function 'format(<overloaded>, real)'
> /usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf/asymptote/plain.asy: 265.16: use of variable 'format' is ambiguous
> error: recursive loading of module 'plain'
> 
> Is this happening on other platforms also?
> 
> Ken

I built on Mac OS X with no errors. I get exactly the same messages when running
the program.

Asymptote binaries tend to be tightly linked to the support files, so my guess is that
the support files haven't yet been upgraded. I'll try a tlmgr update next, in case
the problem is now fixed.

Dick Koch