Re: mpost problem

On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 06:33:59PM +0100, Thomas Esser wrote:
> > 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...

Agreed (I noted this as the cause of the issue, but don't think we
should change it globally because of this).

> > 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:

Nice!

   Julian

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