[poppler] Help with first time compiling

jose.aliste at gmail.com jose.aliste at gmail.com
Sat Jan 5 13:08:42 PST 2013


Hey Ronald,


On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 10:02 PM, Ronald Bradford
<ronald.bradford at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi List,
>
> I am a user of pdftotext and pdfimages on Ubuntu 12.04 and I noticed the
> repo distro version was 0.18.
> Seeing you are at 0.24 I thought I should check it out for any
> improvements.
> My goal is only to use the utils, but I assume I need to compile the full
> codebase.
>
> I am getting the following configure warnings and would like some
> assistance.
>
> checking for CAIRO... no
> ./configure: line 21111: test: too many arguments
> checking for gtkdoc-check... no
> checking for gtkdoc-rebase... no
> checking for gtkdoc-mkpdf... no
> checking whether to build gtk-doc documentation... no
> checking for POPPLER_QT4... no
> ./configure: line 22517: syntax error near unexpected token `iconv'
> ./configure: line 22517: `      AC_LIB_LINKFLAGS_BODY(iconv)'
>
> I'm guessing (not being a configure guru, these two errors should not be.)
>
> It is easier if you just do apt-get build-dep poppler, which will install
all the dependencies you need to build poppler

Greets




> If I need cairo (which is a heavy package), what specific packages are the
> minimum needed, e.. just libcairo2-dev?
> Any help on also getting a clean configure past the later error to run
> make would be appreciated.
>
>
> My steps to reproduce are :
>
> git clone git://git.freedesktop.org/git/poppler/poppler
> cd poppler
> sudo apt-get install automake libtool libfontconfig1-dev libjpeg-dev
> ./autogen.sh
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Ronald
>
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