latex/texlive port: broken latex?

[Thomas Ruedas]

Am 30.11.15 um 16:29 schrieb Mojca Miklavec:
> On 30 November 2015 at 14:18, Thomas Ruedas <trg818 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi again,
>> I am just trying a newly installed texlive installation (latex-extra,
>> Macports 2.3.4), but it seems that something is broken.
> ...
>> mktextfm: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode;
>> input ecrm1200
>> This is METAFONT, Version 2.7182818 (TeX Live 2015/MacPorts 2015_7)
>> (preloaded base=mf)
>
> Does it help if you install
>      sudo port install texlive-fonts-recommended
> ?
Thanks Mojca, yes, that was the problem.
> PS: in case it helps, here's how I usually diagnose these issues (on a
> complete installation):
[...]
> But this cannot be solved easily on a MacPorts level except in the
> same way as MikTeX does it on Windows (ie. it install files on the fly
> based on whatever files the user is trying to access) with quite some
> coding. The only safe way is to install the complete texlive suite.
I see; I had expected such fonts to come with latex-extra and its 
dependencies already, but now I remember that this is only a subset of 
texlive. It's been some time since the last update...

Best,
Thomas