[OS X TeX] running asymptote within TeXShop

[Murray Eisenberg]

On 20 Nov2017, at 1:30 PM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
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>> On Nov 20, 2017, at 9:46 AM, Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Aha! With \listfiles I found that, for reasons unknown, I had an older version of asymptote.sty, from 2011, in /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/latex/asymptote.
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>> Removing that whole folder allowed use of the current version, asymptote.sty 2016/11/26 v1.33. Which allowed successful typesetting.
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>> Thank you!
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>>> On 20 Nov2017, at 10:33 AM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
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>>>> On Nov 20, 2017, at 9:08 AM, Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> On 19 Nov2017, at 4:51 PM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
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>>>>>> On Nov 19, 2017, at 3:34 PM, Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>>>> I have he asymptotemk engine active in TeXShop 3.89. I copied file ~/Library/TeXShop/Engines/Inactive/Sample.tex to my ~/Documents folder and tried to typeset that copy Sample.tex using the asymptotemk engine.
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>>>>>> I get the error(s) indicated in the console output extract shown below.  What’s wrong?

>>>>>>  [SNIP]
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>>> for old file versions. Also check the log file to make sure you are not getting interference from an old copy of a file in your personal texmf tree.
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>>> PS: You can either use the asymptotemk engine or, with that platexmkrc file in the same folder, simply us the pdflatexmk engine. It should compile either way.
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> One more thing... did you run
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> sudo mktexlsr
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> or
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> sudo texhash
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> so that the LS-R file for the texmf-local is rebuilt? If not please do that.
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1. Thanks for tip that I can just use pdflatexmk.

2. Should I _really_ run “sudo mktexlsr” or “sudo texhash”? All my “local” texmf files are in ~/Library/texmf.