Bug#238627: ps2pk fails to generate font (and is outdated)

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Thomas Esser <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de> schrieb:

>> in our Debian BTS we have a bug report that mktexpk doesn't generate a
>> font. It seems to boil down that ps2pk does not respect the setting of
>> the T1INPUTS variable, as it should from its manpage:
>
> I don't know if this has ever worked. It is clear, however, that the
> current implementation searches from afm files using kpathsea's search
> path kpse_afm_format.  That search paths can only be influenced by the
> AFMFONTS variable, nothing else.
>
> So, setting AFMFONTS should help.

Just exchanging AFMFONTS for T1INPUTS in the previous example doesn't
help. Also not after copying the file to
/usr/local/share/texmf/fonts/afm/urw¹, and also not with various lenghts
in the path, from

AFMFONTS=/usr/local/share/texmf/ ps2pk -v bp5ri8a

to

AFMFONTS=/usr/local/share/texmf/fonts/afm/ ps2pk -v bp5ri8a

Any ideas?

Thank you, Frank

¹I'm not sure whether that's the correct manufacturer, but it doesn't
matter in this context
-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie