Bug#176526: tetex-bin: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/mktexnam does not set PATH correctly, additional analysis

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 07.04.04 Frank Küster (frank@debian.org) wrote:
> Walter Tautz <wtautz@cs.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:

Hi,

> > So mktexnam outputs a name that tells the program to copy a pk
> > file so an appropriately name pk file?
> 
> Could send me a (hopefully small) tex file that uses this font, and
> tell me exactly which files I need to move away?
> 
\font\test ecbl1000
\test test
\bye

feed it to plain TeX. He should start creating the related tfm-files.
Make sure they don't exist before. Put your fake access in the path
so that it can be found before /usr/bin/access e.g. /usr/local/bin.
Then you get:

Font metrics written on ecbl1000.tfm.
Output written on ecbl1000.600gf (256 characters, 50072 bytes).
Transcript written on ecbl1000.log.
mktextfm: /var/spool/texmf/tfm/jknappen/ec/ecbl1000.tfm: successfully
generated.cp: cannot create regular file `nix da\n/var/spool/texmf/pk/ljfour/jknappen/ec/pk16337.tmp':
No such file or directory
 [1] )
Output written on a.dvi (1 page, 260 bytes).
Transcript written on a.log.

H. 
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