Changeset 09a2590

Timestamp:

08/13/2020 01:14:57 PM (4 years ago)

Author:

Xi Ruoyao <xry111@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, gimp3, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, lazarus, lxqt, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/for-12.3, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/spidermonkey128, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

f0bedadb

Parents:

7d50f20

Message:

texlive: fix the instruction to use system poppler-20.08

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@23508 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

Files:

• general.ent (modified) (2 diffs)
• introduction/welcome/changelog.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• pst/typesetting/texlive.xml (modified) (5 diffs)
• xincludes/texrecommendlibs.xml (modified) (1 diff)

general.ent

@@ -1 +1 @@
 <!-- $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ -->
 
-<!ENTITY day          "12">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
+<!ENTITY day          "13">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY month        "08">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY year         "2020">
@@ -7 +7 @@
 <!ENTITY copyholder   "The BLFS Development Team">
 <!ENTITY version      "&year;-&month;-&day;">
-<!ENTITY releasedate  "August 12th, &year;">
+<!ENTITY releasedate  "August 13th, &year;">
 <!ENTITY pubdate      "&year;-&month;-&day;"> <!-- metadata req. by TLDP -->
 <!ENTITY blfs-version "svn">                  <!-- svn|[release #] -->

introduction/welcome/changelog.xml

@@ -43 +43 @@
     -->
     <listitem>
+      <para>August 13th, 2020</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[xry111] - Revert r23505, and fix the instruction to build
+          texlive with poppler-20.08.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
       <para>August 12th, 2020</para>
       <itemizedlist>

pst/typesetting/texlive.xml

@@ -223 +223 @@
 
     <caution>
-  <!--<para>
+      <para>
         The instructions here for dealing with <application>poppler</application>
         will only work with versions of poppler used in BLFS-9.1 and later, i.e.
@@ -232 +232 @@
         which version of <application>poppler</application> is installed and use
         the appropriate versions of these files.
-      </para>-->
-
-      <para>
-        If you wish to upgrade to current <application>texlive</application>
+      </para>
+
+      <para>
+        Similarly, if you wish to upgrade to current <application>texlive</application>
         on an older system where extra packages (<application>asymptote</application>.
         <application>biber</application>, <application>dvisvgm</application> or
@@ -258 +258 @@
 EOF</userinput></screen>
 
+    <para>
+      <application>TexLive</application> ships with a very old version of
+      <application>poppler</application>, and some updated files for newer versions.
+      To use the system version, first identify it and then copy the correct
+      versions of the updated files (please read the Caution above):
+    </para>
+
+<!-- on a release, drop this back to current version but update the
+ Caution above and ideally keep this commented, every other (expletive
+ deleted) poppler update tends to break this. -->
+<screen><userinput>SYSPOP= &amp;&amp;
+let MYPOPPLER_MAJOR=$(pkg-config --modversion poppler | cut -d '.' -f1)
+let MYPOPPLER_MINOR=$(pkg-config --modversion poppler | cut -d '.' -f2)
+if [ "$MYPOPPLER_MAJOR" -eq 0 ] &amp;&amp; [ "$MYPOPPLER_MINOR" -lt 85 ]; then
+    # BLFS-9.1 uses 0.85.0, ignore earlier versions in this script.
+    SYSPOP=
+else
+    SYSPOP="--with-system-poppler --with-system-xpdf"
+    if [ "$MYPOPPLER_MAJOR" -eq 0 ] &amp;&amp; [ "$MYPOPPLER_MINOR" -lt 86 ]; then
+        mv -v texk/web2c/pdftexdir/pdftoepdf{-poppler0.83.0,}.cc
+    else # 0.86.0 or later, including 20.08.0.
+        mv -v texk/web2c/pdftexdir/pdftoepdf{-poppler0.86.0,}.cc
+    fi
+    # For pdftosrc BLFS-9.1 uses 0.83.0 and that is the latest variant.
+    mv -v texk/web2c/pdftexdir/pdftosrc{-poppler0.83.0,}.cc
+fi &amp;&amp;
+export SYSPOP &amp;&amp;
+unset MYPOPPLER_{MAJOR,MINOR}</userinput></screen>
+
     <note>
       <para>
@@ -271 +300 @@
 <!-- after the export!
 patch -Np1 -i ../texlive-&texlive-version;-source-upstream_fixes-1.patch &amp;&amp;-->
-
-<!-- System poppler was removed from upstream in
- https://tug.org/svn/texlive?view=revision&revision=55138
- so for remaining lifetime of TL2020 use its shipped version
- because it does not build with current system poppler -->
-
 <screen><userinput>export TEXARCH=$(uname -m | sed -e 's/i.86/i386/' -e 's/$/-linux/') &amp;&amp;
 
@@ -305 +328 @@
     --with-system-mpfr                                          \
     --with-system-pixman                                        \
+    ${SYSPOP}                                                   \
     --with-system-zlib                                          \
     --with-banner-add=" - BLFS" &amp;&amp;
 
-make</userinput></screen>
+make &amp;&amp;
+unset SYSPOP</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>

xincludes/texrecommendlibs.xml

@@ -18 +18 @@
   <xref linkend="icu"/>,
   <xref linkend="libpaper"/> (used by at least context and xelatex),
-   and <xref linkend="libpng"/>
-<!-- System poppler was removed from upstream in
- https://tug.org/svn/texlive?view=revision&revision=55138
- so for remaining lifetime of TL2020 use its shipepd version -->
+   and <xref linkend="libpng"/>, also
+  <xref linkend="poppler"/> (only used if suitable file versions
+  are available in <filename class="directory">texk/web2c/pdftexdir</filename>)
 </para>