[OS X TeX] TLU broke my symlink

[Herbert Schulz]

On Jun 6, 2010, at 3:50 PM, Justin C. Walker wrote:

> Actually, I don't know what happened.  I'm just hoping to get attention :-}
> 
> I am using TL-2010 (on Mac OS X, 10.5.8), and update periodically.  Until today, I was using TLU 0.86.
> 
> Prior to the broken symlink, I had updated on 6/2.  Each time I update, I run a few typesets to make sure I haven't hosed things completely, and so far, no problems.
> 
> On Friday, I noticed BibDesk's preview was complaining.  Further checking revealed this:
> 
> <justin at zippo:SageDays22> ls -l /usr/texbin
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  63 Jun  5 17:31 /usr/texbin -> ../Library/TeX/Distributions/.DefaultTeX/Contents/Programs/i386
> 
> as expected, but
> 
> <justin at zippo:SageDays22> ls -l /usr/texbin/
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  admin  34 Mar  8  2008 /usr/texbin/ -> ../../../../../../../opt/local/bin
> 
> was somewhat of a surprise (not to mention totally wrong).  Has anyone seen this?  I don't make a habit of messing with symlinks in the system's backyard, so this wasn't something I did deliberately.
> 
> I fixed the problem by recreating the 'texbin' link.
> 
> Hoping for clarity, and thanks, in advance...
> 
> Justin

Howdy,

This sounds more as though you tickled something in the TeX Distribution System Preference Pane. That assignment sounds like it's pointing to something (possibly a TeX Distribution?) in MacPorts. Did you install a MacPorts distribution?

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)