[Bug 283055] devel/tex-web2c installs broken links

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Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2026 03:30:19 UTC
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=283055

Jamie Landeg-Jones <jamie@catflap.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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         Resolution|Overcome By Events          |---
             Status|Closed                      |Open

--- Comment #3 from Jamie Landeg-Jones <jamie@catflap.org> ---
03:27 (53.0°C 4397) (20) "tex-web2c" root@catflap# egrep
'pbibtex|pdvitype|ppltof|ptfpopl' pkg-plist 
bin/pbibtex
bin/pdvitype
                                                                               
                                                                               
                                               03:27 (53.0°C 4397) (21)
"tex-web2c" root@catflap# egrep 'pbibtex|pdvitype|ppltotf|ptftopl' pkg-plist
bin/pbibtex
bin/pdvitype
bin/ppltotf
bin/ptftopl
                                                                               
                                                                               
                                               03:28 (56.0°C 4397) (22)
"tex-web2c" root@catflap# l /usr/local/bin/{pbibtex,pdvitype,ppltotf,ptftopl}
1 lrwxr-xr-x  1 root wheel - 8  4 Jan 04:25 /usr/local/bin/pbibtex -> upbibtex
1 lrwxr-xr-x  1 root wheel - 9  4 Jan 04:25 /usr/local/bin/pdvitype ->
updvitype
1 lrwxr-xr-x  1 root wheel - 8  4 Jan 04:25 /usr/local/bin/ppltotf -> uppltotf
1 lrwxr-xr-x  1 root wheel - 8  4 Jan 04:25 /usr/local/bin/ptftopl -> uptftopl
                                                                               
                                                                               
                                               03:28 (47.0°C 4099) (23)
"tex-web2c" root@catflap# which pbibtex pdvitype ppltotf ptftopl
pbibtex: Command not found.
pdvitype: Command not found.
ppltotf: Command not found.
ptftopl: Command not found.
                                                                               
                                                                               
                                               *1* 03:28 (67.0°C 4397) (24)
"tex-web2c" root@catflap# pkg which pbibtex pdvitype ppltotf ptftopl
pbibtex was not found in PATH, falling back to non-search behaviour
/usr/ports/devel/tex-web2c/pbibtex was not found in the database
pdvitype was not found in PATH, falling back to non-search behaviour
/usr/ports/devel/tex-web2c/pdvitype was not found in the database
ppltotf was not found in PATH, falling back to non-search behaviour
/usr/ports/devel/tex-web2c/ppltotf was not found in the database
ptftopl was not found in PATH, falling back to non-search behaviour
/usr/ports/devel/tex-web2c/ptftopl was not found in the database
                                                                               
                                                                               
                                               *1* 03:28 (58.0°C 4397) (25)
"tex-web2c" root@catflap# pkg info tex-web2c-20250308 
tex-web2c-20250308
Name           : tex-web2c
Version        : 20250308
Installed on   : Sun Jan  4 04:25:52 2026 GMT
Origin         : devel/tex-web2c
Architecture   : FreeBSD:15:amd64
Prefix         : /usr/local
Categories     : devel
Licenses       : LGPL21+
Maintainer     : tex@FreeBSD.org
WWW            : UNKNOWN
Comment        : TeX implementation translating WEB to C
Shared Libs required:
        libc.so.7
        libcairo.so.2
        libgmp.so.10
        libkpathsea.so.6
        libm.so.5
        libmpfi.so.0
        libmpfr.so.6
        libpixman-1.so.0
        libpng16.so.16
        libptexenc.so.1
        libz.so.6
Annotations    :
        FreeBSD_version: 1500505
Flat size      : 6.04MiB
Description    :
Web2c, a system which converts TeX, Metafont, and other related WEB programs
to C.  By itself, it is not a complete, ready-to-run, TeX distribution, nor
is it a general-purpose Pascal-to-C or WEB-to-C translator.

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