Problem building teTeX/cmpsfont

[Kris Kennaway]

On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 11:48:23PM +0200, Erik Norgaard wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 09:52:57PM +0200, Erik Norgaard wrote:
> >>Hi, I updated my ports tree and started to reinstall all packages to 
> >>update gettext and xorg. Now trying to install teTeX it fails with the 
> >>following error:
> >>
> >>===>  Building for cmpsfont-1.0_6
> >>(cd /usr/ports/print/cmpsfont/work/cmpsfont/pfb; 
> >>/usr/local/bin/type1inst -nolog -quiet)
> >>/usr/local/bin/type1inst: not found
> >>*** Error code 127
> >>
> >>Stop in /usr/ports/print/cmpsfont.
> >>
> >>But:
> >>
> >>photon# ll /usr/local/bin/type1inst
> >>-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  39066 24 May 21:17 /usr/local/bin/type1inst
> >>
> >>Certainly, also, if I try to run this command I get the same error:
> >>
> >>photon# /usr/local/bin/type1inst
> >>/usr/local/bin/type1inst: Command not found.
> >>
> >>What's broken? how do I fix this?
> >
> >I guess that is a script that is trying to use a nonexistent
> >interpreter.
> 
> You're right:
> 
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> 
> Since when did the port stop creating a link to /usr/bin/perl? I recall 
> a discussion on ports about whether or not to keep creating the link, 
> and IIRC the conclusion was that too many things break without the link.
> 
> The latest mention of perl in UPDATING is from February last year.

It still does for the reason you say.  I guess something deleted it on
your system.

Kris