[Bug 242416] Review Request: texlive - Binaries for the TeX formatting system

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Summary: Review Request: texlive - Binaries for the TeX formatting system


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------- Additional Comments From ji.cerny at gmail.com  2007-08-18 10:11 EST -------
Jindrich, is there some interest in building texlive against poppler instead of
against the included xpdf. With some copying from debian (unstable) I have
managed to do it. 

There are two ways how to do it. In any case one should modify poppler SRPM to
install XPDF headers. This is easy, because poppler has a configure switch to do
it. I made these headers to go in a new suppackage, that will be probably
usefull only for building TeXlive but anyway. Building TeXlive is then
essentially renaming GString to GooString. The only problem is pdftosrc that
does not compile. If one decide not to include it in the installation (as debian
does now, if I understand it well), the changes to poppler package are really
minimal.

To include also pdftosrc, one should patch the poppler a little bit more,
essentially one should move the definition of class ObjectSteam from XRef.cc to
XRef.h.

I will attach the second version of patches, both for poppler and texlive, I can
provide the first, of course.  Hope that it helps.  

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