<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Jean-Francois,<div><br></div><div>Thanks for the detailed bug report!</div><div><br></div><div>When MacTeX installs TeX Live, it creates TeX Distribution structures for itself, and for three</div><div>other distributions: Fink, MacPorts, and Gerben's original teTeX (but not gwTeX). That's because</div><div>these three distributions don't create their own TeX Distribution structures. But MacTeX does not</div><div>edit TeX Distribution structures created by other distributors.</div><div><br></div><div>Thus the gwTeX structure contains a powerpc link but no ppc link because that's what Gerben</div><div>originally provided. This wasn't a mistake on his part; the ppc link came later.</div><div><br></div><div>The puzzling feature of your bug report is that your /usr/texbin points to </div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap; ">../Library/TeX/Distributions/.DefaultTeX/Contents/Programs/ppc</span></div><div><br></div><div>I have now checked the install scripts for MacTeX 2010, 2009, and 2008 and BasicTeX and all</div><div>create a link to </div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap; ">../Library/TeX/Distributions/.DefaultTeX/Contents/Programs/powerpc</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; ">I also checked my own powerpc machine, which has this second link. The actual code which</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; ">does this is in a postflight script. The script first removes any existing symbolic link named</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; ">/usr/texbin, and then does the following:</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; "><br></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> PROCESSOR=`/usr/bin/uname -p`</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><br></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> if [[ "$PROCESSOR" == "powerpc" ]]; then
echo "### setting program link powerpc"
ln -fhs ../Library/TeX/Distributions/.DefaultTeX/Contents/Programs/powerpc /usr/texbin
<br></span></span></span></span></div><div>Thus the real puzzle is why your /usr/texbin link is incorrect. </div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; "><br></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; ">I have never heard of</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; "><br></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>/usr/powerpctexbin</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; "><br></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; ">and have no idea where that came from.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; "><br></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; ">Dick Koch</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; "><a href="mailto:koch@math.uoregon.edu">koch@math.uoregon.edu</a></span></span></div></body></html>