[metapost] Trying to figure out MPLib

[Hans Hagen]

On 3-8-2012 16:43, Shriramana Sharma wrote:

> And pardon me if I missed this somewhere, but does the source-tree as
> it is distributed even have a *build*-dependency on any
> TeX-components? (I have seen packages which have a build-dependency on
> TeX [for documentation or such] but not for execution, which is why I
> ask.) As you can see, as far as possible, I would like to not have any
> dependency on TeX either for building or for execution.

unfortunately, the tex source tree is not the easiest to deal with (also 
related to kpse / web2c stuff as mentioned by taco already but tangle 
and weave are also factors)

Hans

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