Linking TL with poppler?

[Preuße, Hilmar]

On 13.09.2023 00:14, Karl Berry wrote:

Hi Karl,

> Hi Hilmar - certainly not a dumb question. I took out those options
> because, due to version skew and incompatibilities, it became impossible
> (impractical) to support.  It also creates a substantially different
> pdftex (et al.) program, which is worrisome to me in principle.
> 

Yes, that is is answer I expected. The poppler people still change the 
API every few releases to I understand that trying to use it is rather 
painful.

> Nevertheless, if you or anyone can provide maintainable patches to link
> with poppler, I am not opposed to installing them.
> 
Sorry, I'm currently not in the position to help here. It was just a 
question.

@Vincent: I had a short look at mupdf. At least in Debian there is no 
shared library for mupdf, just a static library and it does not avoid 
the code duplication. As far as I understood [1] there won't be a 
solution for this soon.

Hilmar

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/719351
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