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

[Herbert Schulz]

> On Nov 28, 2015, at 10:05 AM, Eric van der Oord <eric.vanderoord at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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 It seems that the file mp-spec.mp has been replaced by two files, mp-spec.mpii and mp-spec.mpiv, the former to be used by ConTeXt-mII and the latter by ConTeXt-mIV.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

Howdy,


NOOOOOOO! Now you've lost the newer files that were there. If you wanted to do something like that you should have copied it to a similar location (you'd have to create the tree) in your personal tree or your texmf-local tree.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)