id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
12105	dvisvgm-2.8	ken@…	ken@…	"Until now we have installed dvisvgm as part of texlive, e.g. as /opt/texlive/2018/bin/x86_64-linux/dvisvgm

With the changes during the last year, the modified configure scripts / Makefiles of texlive no-longer permit this to be built when system libs are used, and texlive upstream is unwilling to change this. Debian will use separate dvisvgm.
[https://dvisvgm.de/]

Unfortunately, the dependencies are ""heavy"" :

Clipper (http://www.angusj.com/delphi/clipper.php)

FontForge (a reduced version is bundled)

FreeType

Ghostscript

kpathsea

openssl - in LFS

potrace

woff2 and brotli (bundled)

xxHash (https://github.com/Cyan4973/xxHash)

For kpathsea, --with-kpathsea=/opt/texlive/2019 works.

Without brotli, it can only be built using --enable-bundle-libs which use '''all''' the bundled libs.

I've just apparently managed to built it with those two switches, but DESTDIR installing it (to /usr/local, to see what it produced) only created the basic directories.

Trying to run make check, I am unable to persuade it to find libkpathsea.
I suspect it might be looking for a static version. The odd thing is that config.log shows things like

{{{configure:12824: checking for kpse_find_file in -lkpathsea
configure:12849: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -I/opt/texlive/2019/include  -I/opt/texlive/2019/include  -L/opt/texlive/2019/lib conftest.c -lkpathsea   >&5
configure:12849: $? = 0
configure:12858: result: yes
configure:12872: checking kpathsea version
configure:12890: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -I/opt/texlive/2019/include  -I/opt/texlive/2019/include  -L/opt/texlive/2019/lib conftest.c -lkpathsea  >&5
configure:12890: $? = 0
configure:12890: ./conftest
configure:12890: $? = 0
configure:12899: result: ""6.3.1""
}}}
So at that point it apparently linked successfully to it.

I have little or no use for this (I've dropped eps files since I can no longer view them after last year's ghostscript changes, I don't use DVI files, and I have no reason to convert a page of a PDF to an SVG file.

I'm inclined to let it go.




"	enhancement	closed	normal	9.1	BOOK	SVN	medium	fixed