[tex-live] Bug in updmap?!

[Rainer Klueting]

Hi,

I just subscribed to this mailing list, and here I am reporting a 
bug. That doesn't sound like good style. But I was encouraged to 
do so by several people in the usenet-group de.comp.text.tex.

To make a lengthy story short: After some troubles getting a 
newly installed postscript font working, usenet-people gave me the 
advice to register my new map-file by

updmap --enable Map xyz.map

instead of telling me to edit updmap.cfg first and then simply 
calling updmap without any option (which did it for me, later on). 
As you may know, updmap is present in TeXLive as an exe-file and 
a perl-script.

I tried the above command. It failed, telling me:

using config file c:/Programme/TeXLive/texmf-
var/web2c/updmap.cfg
type=Map,map=1
configReplace c:/Programme/TeXLive/texmf-
var/web2c/updmap.cfg, ^#!\s*Map\s*1, Map 1
c:/Programme/TeXLive/texmf-var/web2c/updmap.cfg unchanged. 
Map files not recreated.

Please watch the expression ^#!\s*Map\s*1, Map 1. This is 
obviously a regular expression which is meant to "activate" or 
"enable" a map-file in updmap.cfg. It is meant to

replace line: #! Map xyz.map
by line: Map xyz.map

But it doesn't, because the name of the map-file is replaced by the 
number "1", whatever file name you give.

Similar errors surface, if you give updmap some of the other legal 
options. Whenever you give three tokens to the commandline, as 
in

updmap --enable Map xyz.map
or in
updmap --setoption <option> <argument>

the third token, the <argument>, will not be accepted, neither by 
updmap.exe nor by updmap.pl.

My version of updmap.pl is said to be of 2002, author Thomas 
Esser. I wrote to Thomas, but he told me he didn't write the perl-
version of the script. He wasn't sure but guessed Fabrice Popineau 
might have converted his Bourne-script to perl and additionally 
compiled an exe.

I'm no more than a beginner in perl; I didn't find the fault in the 
script on my first glance. I wonder if there is already a fixed 
version available.

Regards

-- 
Rainer Klueting
Stuttgart, Germany