Hi Taco, hi all, at the Debian side we got the following bug report, but it seems that it applies to TeX Live upstream as well since the texmf.cnf variable is present there, too:
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, Jean-Paul Vincent wrote: > A metapost file with: *btex etex*, inside do not compile. No problem > without btex-etex. > > I found that the error is coming from the following line of texmf.cnf: > > ---------------------------- > % Used by makempx to run TeX. We use "etex" because MetaPost is > % expecting DVI, and not "tex" because we want first line parsing. > TEX = etex > ---------------------------- > > because etex is gone. The command: > export TEX=latex && mpost logistic.mp > compile the file logistic.mp > (I got a font error from gv: undefined in /cmr10). > > > Description of the problem: > (I copied a file logistic from the Metapost manual) > > ---------------------------- > ~% mpost logistic.mp > This is MetaPost, version 1.208 (kpathsea version 5.0.0) > (./logistic.mp > fatal: exec failed: No such file or directory > fatal: Command failed: etex --parse-first-line > --interaction=nonstopmode mp691666.tex; see mpxerr.log > zsh: segmentation fault mpost logistic.mp > --------------------------- > > And gdb said: > > -------------- > ~% gdb mpost > (gdb) run td/logistic.mp mpost > Starting program: /usr/bin/mpost logistic.mp mpost > This is MetaPost, version 1.208 (kpathsea version 5.0.0) > (logistic.mpfatal: exec failed: No such file or directoryfatal: Command > failed: etex --parse-first-line --interaction=nonstopmode mp692886.tex; > see mpxerr.log > Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. > 0x00007ffff7637451 in vfprintf () from /lib/libc.so.6 > -------------- I think there are two bugs: - first the TEX seting in texmf.cnf should be changed, Taco, what is the one that is preferred/needed? - mpost should not segfault on a missing etex If you have some suggestions or patches for me to test please let me know. Best wishes Norbert ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Norbert Preining prein...@{jaist.ac.jp, logic.at, debian.org} JAIST, Japan TU Wien, Austria Debian TeX Task Force gpg DSA: 0x09C5B094 fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76 A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 B094 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- FIUNARY (n.) The safe place you put something and then forget where it was. --- Douglas Adams, The Meaning of Liff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org