Bug#72630: tetex-bin: mkfontdesc fails on Debian [FIX]

[Christoph Martin <martin@uni-mainz.de>]

C.M. Connelly writes:
 > 
 > 
 > Package: tetex-bin
 > Version: 1.0.7+20000807
 > Severity: normal
 > 
 > mkfontdesc doesn't work on Debian because PK fonts are kept in
 > /var/spool/texmf/pk:
 > 
 >    diziet# mkfontdesc
 >    Ooops! font-directory /usr/share/texmf/fonts/pk does not exist.
 >    Need to change value for $TEXMFMAIN?

That problem is not Debian specific. 

 > PK fonts are stored in /var/spool/texmf/pk on Debian systems, but
 > mkfontdesc assumes that they are in TEXMFMAIN/fonts/pk, where
 > TEXMFMAIN is expanded to /usr/share/texmf by kpstool -v
 > '$TEXMFMAIN'.
 > 
 > VARTEXFONTS is set to /var/spool/texmf, but using VARTEXFONTS
 > instead of TEXMFMAIN would still fail because mkfontdesc assumes
 > that there's a directory called fonts that contains a directory
 > called pk below the directory specifed.
 > 
 > The problem can be fixed by creating a symbolic link between
 > /var/spool/texmf/pk and /usr/share/texmf/fonts/pk, but I'm not
 > sure that's the best solution.

We should fix mkfontdesc. Please try the following patch:

20,22c20,22
< TEXMF=`kpsetool -v '$TEXMFMAIN'`
< pk=$TEXMF/fonts/pk
< FONTDESC=$TEXMF/fonts/fontdesc
---
> VARTEXFONTS=`kpsetool -v '$VARTEXFONTS'`
> pk=$VARTEXFONTS/pk
> FONTDESC=$VARTEXFONTS/fontdesc

Christoph