Bug#183072: ivritex docs fail due to font compilation problems

[Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir@technion.ac.il>]

Package: tetex-bin
Version: 2.0.1-2.1

The following simple Hebrew latex document will not be typeset correctly,
at least not on a system where the Hebrew fonts are not already in the
texmf cache.

To reproduce: (in recent unstable)

1. install ivritex
2. create the following document:
cat >hebtest.tex <<EOF
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[hebrew]{babel}
\begin{document}
\hebalef
\end{document}
EOF
3. typeset it: elatex hebtest.tex

I get the following error after a while in the run of elatex:

  Running mktextfm jerus10
  kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.

  ! Font LHE/cmr/m/n/10=jerus10 at 10.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found.

in 'missfont.log' I see a couple of lines repeating 'mktextfm jerus10'
When I run this command manually I get a segfault.

Note that this bug currently blocks the upgrade of the ivritex package:
the current version, unlike the previous one, tests itself at build time,
and will thus fail to build with current tetex.

-- 
Tzafrir Cohen
mailto:tzafrir@technion.ac.il
http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir