Aditya,
> I have faced this problem in the past, but was never sure why it
> occured or how to rectify it. Try the command
>
> mpost --tex=latex useemp.mp
>
> on your shell. Do you get the same error message as before (you
> should).
Yes, same error message.
qdf $ mpost --tex=latex useemp.mp
This is MetaPost, Version 0.901 (Web2C 7.5.5)
(useemp.mp (qdftools.mpnewer: target file `qdftools.mpx' doesn't exist.
/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/makempx: Command
failed: latex mpxerr.tex; see mpxerr.log
>> qdftools.mp
>> qdftools.mpx
! Unable to make mpx file.
l.41 label.rt(btex
$x$ etex, (5u,0));
Transcript written on useemp.log.
> Now try,
>
> makempx --tex=latex useemp.mp useemp.mpx
>
> Does this create an mpx file?
qdf $ ls
OTqdbpreview.sty dev.qdf sample2.qdf
dev.1 dev.tex useemp.mp
dev.mp functions.qdf useemp.pdf
dev.pdf qdftools.mp useemp.tex
qdf $
qdf $ makempx --tex=latex useemp.mp useemp.mpx
newer: target file `useemp.mpx' doesn't exist.
dvitomp: mpx14741.dvi: No such file or directory
mv: rename mpx14741.dvi to mpxerr.dvi: No such file or directory
/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/makempx: Command
failed: dvitomp mpxerr.dvi useemp.mpx
qdf $ ls
OTqdbpreview.sty functions.qdf sample2.qdf
dev.1 mpx14741.aux useemp.mp
dev.mp mpx14741.log useemp.pdf
dev.pdf mpx14741.tex useemp.tex
dev.qdf mpxerr.log
dev.tex qdftools.mp
Doesn't look like it.
> If it does, then atleast a workaround
> for the problem is to have
>
> \immediate\write18{makempx --tex=latex \jobname.mp \jobname.mpx}
> before
> \immediate\write18{mpost --tex=latex \jobname}.
>
> If makempx fails, look at the output of
>
> makempx --verbose --tex=latex useemp.mp useemp.mpx
>
> What do you get?
qdf $ makempx --verbose --tex=latex useemp.mp useemp.mpx
/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/makempx: Invalid
option: --verbose.
Try `makempx --help' for more information.
qdf $ makempx --help
Usage: /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/makempx [-
tex|-tex=<program>|-troff] MPFILE MPXFILE.
If MPXFILE is older than MPFILE, translate the labels from the
MetaPost
input file MPFIle to low-level commands in MPXFILE, by running
mpto -tex, , and dvitomp
by default; or, if -troff is specified,
mpto -troff, eqn -Tps -d\$\$ | troff -Tps, and dmp.
The current directory is used for writing temporary files. Errors
are
left in mpxerr.{tex,log,dvi}.
If the file named in $MPTEXPRE (mptexpre.tex by default) exists,
it is
prepended to the output in tex mode.
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