[poppler] Alternate path for utils/.libs?

[Bill Hollingsworth]

Hi,

I am using a system where I must install poppler in a subdirectory tree of /var.  I am using the --prefix=DIR option of ./configure to compile it.

I need to use some of the poppler utilities (e.g., pdftotext). pdftotext (in /var/task/poppler/utils) wants to write a temporary file in /var/task/poppler/utils/.libs at each run.

On the system I am using, pdftotext does not have permission to write to /var/task/poppler/utils/.libs and I am not able to give it that permission. I copied pdftotext to /tmp and pdftotext successfully created the subdirectory /tmp/.libs but does not have permission to write to it.

Those are the confines of the system I am using. Is it possible to compile poppler to use /tmp for the temporary files rather than creating a .libs subdirectory?

Thanks,
Bill