Digging further reveals a working texfont.pl installed with debians
texlive. The two texfonts claim to be the same version (in header) but
are quite different. Both are included in the attached zip.

Regards, Johan

2006/9/17, Johan Sandblom <jsandblom@gmail.com>:
> I have not used texfont in quite a while, but it seems something has
> gone wrong as this was the output I got. Same result if prefixed with
> texmfstart. This is debian linux and perl is
>
> ~$ perl --version
>
> This is perl, v5.8.8 built for i486-linux-gnu-thread-multi
>
> ~$ texfont
> Global symbol "$uselmencodings" requires explicit package name at
> /home/johans/tex/texmf-local/scripts/context/perl/texfont.pl line 202.
> Global symbol "$lm" requires explicit package name at
> /home/johans/tex/texmf-local/scripts/context/perl/texfont.pl line 873.
> Global symbol "$lm" requires explicit package name at
> /home/johans/tex/texmf-local/scripts/context/perl/texfont.pl line 964.
> Global symbol "$theencoding" requires explicit package name at
> /home/johans/tex/texmf-local/scripts/context/perl/texfont.pl line 965.
> Global symbol "$lm" requires explicit package name at
> /home/johans/tex/texmf-local/scripts/context/perl/texfont.pl line
> 1042.
> Global symbol "$lm" requires explicit package name at
> /home/johans/tex/texmf-local/scripts/context/perl/texfont.pl line
> 1169.
> Execution of /home/johans/tex/texmf-local/scripts/context/perl/texfont.pl
> aborted due to compilation errors.
>
> Regards, Johan
>
> --
> Johan Sandblom  N8, MRC, Karolinska sjh
> t +46851776108  17176 Stockholm
> m +46735521477  Sweden
> "What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the
> will to find out, which is the exact opposite"
> - Bertrand Russell
>


-- 
Johan Sandblom  N8, MRC, Karolinska sjh
t +46851776108  17176 Stockholm
m +46735521477  Sweden
"What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the
will to find out, which is the exact opposite"
- Bertrand Russell