[OS X TeX] metapost + context

[Gerben Wierda]

A part of the reason for this, I have located (by method of lucky 
guess), and a workaround.

The reason seems to be that fmtutil creates either mptopdf.efmt or 
metafun.mem (probably) in such a way that mpost crashes. I do not know 
why (yet).

A workaround is to do the following in an empty directory:

	mkdir youremptydir
	cd youremptydir
	sudo texexec --make
	sudo mv *.efmt *.mem /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c

This gets the formats as created by texexec in your format directory. 
After that, it works here.

G

On Tuesday, April 9, 2002, at 05:47 , flip phillips wrote:

> Greetings- sorry to folks on both the ConTeXt and OS X TeX list for the 
> repetition.
>
> Recently, I did a nice clean install of teTeX via the i-Installer 
> mechanism. Now, I'm trying to build one of my presentations via 
> ConTeXt's presentation mechanism. ConTeXt generates the metapost files 
> just fine. I can get them to metapost by doing mpost -mem=metafun xxx.mp
>
> However, when TeX shop / texexec tries to metapost them mpost crashes 
> w/ an address violation (I have crash logging on in Console.app)
>
> This is strange, it will metapost fine manually, but not from within 
> tetex. I checked the shell_escape variable in texmf.cfg (there are two, 
> one in web2c and another in the highest level), set them to 't' (both 
> to be sure).
>
> Anyone with any ideas here?
>
> --
> flip phillips
> http://www.skidmore.edu/~flip/
>
>
>
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