From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 31 19:38:09 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64BEE16A46B for ; Thu, 31 May 2007 19:38:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5206013C45D for ; Thu, 31 May 2007 19:38:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8421E1A3C1A; Thu, 31 May 2007 12:39:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [192.168.1.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABAA8511A7; Thu, 31 May 2007 15:38:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id A1545BE8E; Thu, 31 May 2007 15:38:08 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 15:38:08 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: Erik Norgaard Message-ID: <20070531193808.GB31948@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <465DD619.2060302@locolomo.org> <20070530203126.GA3464@rot13.obsecurity.org> <465DF127.9050808@locolomo.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <465DF127.9050808@locolomo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: FreeBSD Questions , Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: Problem building teTeX/cmpsfont X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 19:38:09 -0000 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