Re: [NTG-pdftex] [tex-live] Debian TeX -- new packages

Taco Hoekwater wrote:

Hi Frank,

Frank Küster wrote:

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Taco Hoekwater wrote:

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If everybody links with poppler, poppler should be in the repository, not xpdf.

I have half-finished autoconf magic to make the switch to poppler configurable. If you volunteer to finish it, I can send it to you.

Since I am the one complaining, that would definately be fair. But before I say yes, how much knowledge would be needed? I know only a very little bit about autoconf, and unless there is a good manual you can point me to, it could take me a long time to learn.

I don't know much about autoconf, too, and I found the info manual, as well as other resources, hardly helpful: They teach you how to use existing macros, but not how to write new ones. I tried to prepare a diff of my working directory and normal texlive dir, but what I didn't remember was that I copied the poppler sources into the tree (because I thought it would be easier to make the dynamic-vs-static linking switch first, and xpdf vs poppler later). Since I am not sure which files in the poppler dir I touched, it doesn't make much sense to try to diff the trees without remembering what I did (and I don't have time for this ATM). Actually, what I did was pretty straightforward: I copied libfoo.ac (I think foo=png, but I'm not sure) and did simple replaces. I stopped when I came to the place were it was necessary to know how to detect installed poppler header files with autoconf, see above. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)