Package: texlive-binaries
Version: 2009-8
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/mpost
Tags: patch upstream fixed-upstream
Hi,
The following metapost file demonstrates a bug in metapost
===== subdir.mp =====
beginfig(0)
picture p;
write "btex foo etex" to "tmp.mp";
write EOF to "tmp.mp";
p:=input "tmp.mp";
write "btex foo etex" to "/var/tmp/vartmp.mp";
write EOF to "/var/tmp/vartmp.mp";
p:=input "/var/tmp/vartmp.mp";
endfig;
end;
==========
$ mpost subdir.mp
This is MetaPost, version 1.208 (kpathsea version 5.0.0)
(./subdir.mp (./tmp.mp) (/var/tmp/vartmp.mp
>> vartmp.mp
>> vartmp.mpx
! Unable to make mpx file.
l.1 btex
foo etex
Transcript written on subdir.log.
I found a patch for this problem in metapost upstream svn repository and
rediffed it for the 1.2 branch (because of formatting/whitespace changes).
As this was a very recent commit, I don't think it has reached the
texlive repository, yet.
I verified that this fixes the problem, my masters thesis (from the
tetex-2 age) compiles again.
Andreas
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based on http://foundry.supelec.fr/svn/metapost/trunk@1695, rediffed for 1.2
branch
------------------------------------------------------------------------
r1695 | taco | 2011-06-24 11:34:56 +0200 (Fri, 24 Jun 2011) | 2 lines
Changed paths:
M /trunk/source/texk/web2c/mplibdir/mp.w
fix makempx for files not in the current dir
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Index: b/texk/web2c/mplibdir/mp.w
===================================================================
--- a/texk/web2c/mplibdir/mp.w 2011-07-02 18:06:09.000000000 +0200
+++ b/texk/web2c/mplibdir/mp.w 2011-07-02 18:08:05.650352607 +0200
@@ -16785,9 +16785,9 @@
@c void mp_start_mpx_input (MP mp) {
char *origname = NULL; /* a copy of nameoffile */
- mp_pack_file_name(mp, in_name, "", in_ext);
+ mp_pack_file_name(mp, in_name, in_area, in_ext);
origname = xstrdup(mp->name_of_file);
- mp_pack_file_name(mp, in_name, "", ".mpx");
+ mp_pack_file_name(mp, in_name, in_area, ".mpx");
if (!(mp->run_make_mpx)(mp, origname, mp->name_of_file))
goto NOT_FOUND;
mp_begin_file_reading(mp);
