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