Re: [MiKTeX] MetaPost format broken?

[Hans F. N. <ha...@mi...>]

On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 06:14:18PM +0200, Stephan Hennig wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> on an up to date MiKTeX I can't use mptopdf. The same file compiles fine
> with 'mpost test' (environment variable TEX=latex set). I appended the
> command line output of 'mptopdf test.mp' below. A similar error shows
> up, when trying to build MetaPost format from MiKTeX options. Am I doing
> something wrong or is this a bug?
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This is a dependcy bug/side-effect of using the automatic installer. 
When I run mptopdf I get asked to install metatex. The metatex package
contains another mptopdf.tex which covers the correct one being part of 
ConTeXt. The solution is to uninstall metatex and then select don't install
when you run mptopdf the first time. I'll report the bug.

Read more below.
 
> C:\home>mptopdf test.mp
> 
>  TeXExec 4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2004
> 
> unknown file type: texmfscripts
>               metapost : test
>                 format : metafun
> (test.mp [1]
> metafun 2004-8-8 16:20
>  )
> 1 output file written: test.1
> Transcript written on test.log.
> 
>         total run time : 1 seconds
> This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.20a-rc4-2.1 (MiKTeX 2.4)
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> (C:\texmf\tex\plain\metatex\mptopdf.tex

This file is part of the metatex package while the correct mptopdf.tex (in
this case) is texmf\tex\generic\context\mptopdf.tex

Regards,
Hans