Re: pdflatex errors on pkgsrc based texlive

[Mayuresh <mayuresh%acm.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 12:22:59AM +1200, Mark Davies wrote:
> On 18/06/18 23:50, Mayuresh wrote:
> > Thanks. Precisely, installing tex-ec and tex-metafont solved the problem.
> 
> Note that you probably didn't need tex-metafont as it was only trying to
> use it because of the lack of ecrm1000.tfm

I installed metafont first and error changed, so thought both were needed.
But deleted metafont now.

> > Guess, some deps are missing in  pkgsrc.
> 
> Quite possibly, but only if also missing in texlive as we typically
> start with the dependencies specified in the texlive package and add
> others that we notice. 

> So what package was it that was trying to use ec?

Seems fontenc.

In texlive it is a part of "latex", but ec isn't. Obviously a missing dep
there, too, which flows in.

Mayuresh