[OS X TeX] El Capitan, TL-2015 and metapost

[Eric van der Oord]

Thank you !

Problem solved temporarily with a poor man's method : 

	copying some missing files from 

		/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/metapost/context/base 

	to 

		/usr/local/texlive/2015/texmf-dist/metapost/context/base

	running  sudo -H mktexlsr


Best Regards

Eric


> Le 28 nov. 2015 à 15:30, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> a écrit :
> 
>> On Nov 28, 2015, at 8:07 AM, Franck Pastor <franck.pastor at skynet.be> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Le 28 nov. 2015 à 13:51, Eric van der Oord <eric.vanderoord at gmail.com> a écrit :
>> 
>>> Hi all
>>> 
>>> After upgrading to El Capitan and installing texlive 2015,  I have a metapost (used with the emp package) problem :
>>> 
>>> Console gives the following error :
>>> 
>>> (./alg1fig9.texThis is MetaPost, version 1.999 (TeX Live 2015) (kpathsea version 6.2.1)
>>> (/usr/local/texlive/2015/texmf-dist/metapost/base/mpost.mp
>>> (/usr/local/texlive/2015/texmf-dist/metapost/base/plain.mp
>>> Preloading the plain mem file, version 1.005) ) (./Algebre-1.mp
>>> ! I can't open file `mp-spec'.
>>> l.9 \input mp-spec
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Looking into my hard disk, I find an old file :
>>> 
>>> 	/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/metapost/context/base/mp-spec.mp
>>> 	
>>> and a new file :
>>> 
>>> 	/usr/local/texlive/2015/texmf-dist/metapost/context/base/mp-spec.mpii
>>> 	
>>> 
>>> For some reason, the suffix has changed.
>>> 
>>> Is it wise to copy the old file into the new directory ?
>>> 
>>> Best Regards
>>> 
>>> Eric
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> It seems that the file mp-spec.mp has been replaced by two files, mp-spec.mpii and mp-spec.mpiv, the former to be used by ConTeXt-mII and the latter by ConTeXt-mIV.  I would suggest to change the program which calls mp-spec.mp and make it call mp-spec.mpii instead. It this program is part of the MetaPost core files, it may be necessary to warn the MetaPost maintainers of this bug.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> F. Pastor
> 
> Howdy,
> 
> I'd guess you should change the line to
> 
> \input mp-spec.mpii
> 
> and see if it works. 2010 is a long time ago and, with the support of LuaTeX by ConTeXt (mkiv) as well as the, historical, pdftex (mkii) things will undoubtedly have changed.
> 
> PS: this is definitely a guess!
> 
> Good Luck,
> 
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Best Regards

Eric