Re: mpost problem

Thomas Esser <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.tetex.beta
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> and changing this to:
>    parse_first_line = t
> would make things work again.

Sure, but I suggest to give the user a real "TeX" by default. If he
wants to change this default, that's his decision...

> Further, he advised to add to the beginning of /usr/bin/makempx 
>    parse_first_line=t
>    export parse_first_line
> to prevent this going wrong for other people.

A better fix was suggested by Olaf Weber:

--- orig/texk/web2c/mpware/makempx.in	Fri Oct 26 15:22:46 2001
+++ texk/web2c/mpware/makempx.in	Tue Feb  4 18:31:57 2003
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 : ${MPTOTEX="mpto -tex"}
 : ${MPTOTR="mpto -troff"}
 : ${NEWER=newer}
-: ${TEX=tex}
+: ${TEX=tex --parse-first-line}
 : ${TROFF='eqn -d\$\$ | troff -Tpost'}
 
 # convert relative path to absolute in $MAKEMPX_BINDIR:

Thomas
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