Re: Build error regarding mf2pt1 with latest texlive (2011) and lilypond 2.14.1

[Werner LEMBERG]

> On my Arch Linux system, fully up-to-date, with the latest texlive
> in Arch's testing repo, I get the following error when trying to
> build lilypond 2.14.1 from source:
>
> "Sorry, I can't find the 'mf2pt1' preload file; will try 'plain'.This is
> MetaPost, version 1.504 (kpathsea version 6.0.1)"

It seems that there are problems with the environment/configuration
variable to find metapost memory dump files.  The value in my
texmf.cnf is

  MPMEMS = .;$TEXMF/web2c{/$engine,}

and this has worked for me since years...  (I'm running TeXLive from
directly from the SVN repository.)

What exactly is the `latest texlive'?  In a few days there will be the
freeze for TeXLive 2011 so that it can be released in a month or so...


    Werner


PS: Note that the bleeding edge version of metapost no longer has
    memory dump files, AFAIK, since MetaPost has been converted into a
    library (so that it can be directly linked to luatex).  AFAIK,
    this is not yet part of TeXLive.