dvips from texlive-basic broken?

Thu Apr 13 05:21:40 UTC 2017

> On Apr 12, 2017, at 18:42, Andrew Moore <slewsys at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Only by moving aside dvips(1) from MacPorts texlive-basic  and using dvips(1) from MacTeX 2016 distribution, was I able to upgrade to MacPorts asymptote 2.41 vector graphics package.
> 
> asymptote 2.40 was installed about a month ago without any issues.  Anyone care to confirm or dispute this claim?  texlive-basic doesn’t appear to have been updated since December 2016, so it doesn’t make a lot of sense, but I’ve verified the problem and solution on two independent systems…  Thank you!
> 
> MacOS 10.12.4,  Xcode 8.3.1, MacPorts via git HEAD.

Hmm. Buildbot was able to build 2.41 just fine with MacPorts texlive:

https://packages.macports.org/asymptote/

What error messages did you encounter?