[tlbuild] asy 2.16 sources committed for building

[Ken Brown]

On 5/31/2012 10:13 AM, Richard Koch wrote:
> 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.

Thanks, Dick.  Karl did say he would commit the support files today, so 
I guess there's probably no problem.  I just wanted to make sure that 
this wasn't a Cygwin-specific issue.

Ken