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

[Eric van der Oord]

Don't Worry, Herb -- I simply added to TL 2015 files from TL2010 that were NOT in TL2015. 

Best Regards

Eric (iPad)

Le 28 nov. 2015 à 19:45, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> a écrit :

>> 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 It seems that the file mp-spec.mp has been replaced by two files, mp-spec.mpii and mp-spec.mpiv, the former to be used by ConTeXt-mII and the latter by ConTeXt-mIV.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)
> 
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