mktexpk

[Fabrice POPINEAU]

> I would have thought that Metafont ought to be the first choice, since
> the
> type 1 versions of the standard TeX fonts are copied from the metafont
> produced versions -- although I am not claiming to be able to detect any
> difference. 

Thomas Esser put the type1 choice first in teTeX, so is fpTeX since it
is the same texmf tree.

> But anyway, to test this I deleted cmr10.720pk and commented
> out the line in bsr.map referring to cmr10, and ran windvi on some
> file that needed the font. Metafont did not run: the font was not made.
> After uncommenting the line in bsr.map, gsftopk made the font.

Yes, something is wrong. How does dvips behave in the same situation?
If kpathsea can't find the file, it will try to build it.

Fabrice