Mismatch between feynmp.sty from dist and feynmp.mp from LaTeX installation!!!

[Juergen Reuter]

OLD and SOLVED description: This is actually a question. On one computer I had an installed noweb (all binaries are in the path actually), but noweb.sty wasn't in the TeX path. Should we include this somehow??? For me, it broke 'make dist'.

NEW, but related problem: Mismatch between feynmp.sty shipped with the WHIZARD distribution and the MetaPost? input files from the installed LaTeX version. This results in the error messages listed below!

[ohl]

I will add it.

[Juergen Reuter]

This is a quickie, too, therefore I rank it high.

[ohl]

Added more LaTeX/Metapost files in r1519. make dist should work now on more broken installations. Please test.

For the record: I'm not sure that it is wise to support make dist on installations, where nowe is installed, but noweb.sty isn't. I will probably add a test to configure and throw noweb.sty out again.

[ohl]

no further complaints received -> closed

[Juergen Reuter]

Unfortunately, both on Debian as well as SuSe? Linux with standard TeX installations (TeXlive? 2007 or 2008, I believe) I get the following problem, when doing a 'make dist':

Output written on omega.pdf (611 pages, 1930954 bytes).
Transcript written on omega.log.
mpost omegapics
This is MetaPost, Version 0.993 (Web2C 7.5.6)
(omegapics.mp (/usr/share/texmf/metapost/feynmf/feynmp.mp)
! feynmf: Metafont macros out of date.
<to be read again> 
                   ;
<for(2)> ..."feynmf: Metafont macros out of date";
                                                  elseif.TeX_rev[(EXPR0)]<mf...

require_RCS_revision->...rev[n]<>mf_rev[n]);endfor
                                                  .endgroup
<to be read again> 
                   ;
l.3 require_RCS_revision "1.32";
                                
? 

The problem seems to be that the style file from the WHIZARD distribution is taken (with rCS 1.32), but the feynmp.mp from the TeXLive which is rCS 1.30. Hence the mismatch and the error message issued.

[ohl]

???: both feynmp.sty and feynmp.mp version 1.32 are included in the distribution!!! Why is your mpost reading /usr/share/texmf/metapost/feynmf/feynmp.mp?

[Juergen Reuter]

Well, I have build_dir = src_dir, maybe that is the issue, which shoud not raise a problem, of course. But this was both under Debian Lenny and SuSe? 11.1. So it seems a generic problem.

[kilian]

This is addressed in [1532]. Have yet to check whether the issue is solved.

[kilian]

After encountering no more problems with make distcheck and such, I'd guess this is fixed.

[Juergen Reuter]

Milestone v2.0.0final deleted