chktex fails to build on my system when texlive-fontsrecommended isn't installed, but it succeends when I have the fonts. Here's a snippit of an error message from my terminal history, the log has disappeared due to the successful build. I can resurrect the full log if that's necessary. This is METAFONT, Version 2.7182818 (TeX Live 2015) (preloaded base=mf) kpathsea: Running mktexmf ecrm1000 ! I can't find file `ecrm1000'. <*> ...ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ecrm1000 Please type another input file name ! Emergency stop. <*> ...ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ecrm1000 Transcript written on mfput.log. grep: ecrm1000.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ecrm1000' failed to make ecrm1000.tfm. kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log. ! Font T1/cmr/m/n/10=ecrm1000 at 10.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not fou nd. <to be read again> relax l.105 \fontencoding\encodingdefault\selectfont ? ! Emergency stop. <to be read again> relax l.105 \fontencoding\encodingdefault\selectfont No pages of output. Transcript written on ChkTeX.log.
commit bcbd7dced6dcbd407993764234ceb5bf0c3ca215 (HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD) Author: Alexis Ballier <aballier@gentoo.org> Date: Fri Jun 9 17:36:15 2017 +0200 virtual/latex-base: Add dep on dev-texlive/texlive-fontsrecommended. It is needed to build almost anything latex and should prevent bugs like bug #621256 should be better now
