[metapost] dependencies bug

Hans Hagen pragma at wxs.nl
Thu Jul 17 12:07:52 CEST 2014


On 7/17/2014 11:50 AM, Boguslaw Jackowski wrote:
>
> Vadim:
>> In the following minimal example showdependencies
>> shows something inappropriate, which gives "This can't happen"
>
> Daniel:
>> In case it is important, Metapost 1.902 (TeX Live 2014)
>> has the same behavior.
>
> Earlier MPs (e.g., 1.211), and, needless to say, MF
> do not curse "this can't happen". [I tested Vadim's
> second example].

There has been a bug in the dependency solver that has been fixed. So we 
will change that message to:

"it happened once, but should not happen any more"

Hans


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