Re: TeX Live 2019 wanted

[Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>]

On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 11:41:57PM +0100, Marius Bakke wrote:
> Errh, the patch only works if you already have Poppler 0.83.0.  For the
> current 'core-updates' branch, I believe you can use the same approach
> but fetch poppler-0.76.0.cc instead (or take Arch's patch[0]).

Ah, this is rocket science! I guessed so much as to use the 0.76.0 file;
however, the build now fails with the following:

/gnu/store/29jhbbg1hf557x8j53f9sxd9imlmf02a-bash-minimal-5.0.7/bin/bash ./libtool  --tag=CXX   --mode=link g++ -Wreturn-type -Wno-write-strings -g -O2   -o pdftex pdftexdir/pdftex-pdftexextra.o synctexdir/pdftex-synctex.o pdftex-pdftexini.o pdftex-pdftex0.o pdftex-pdftex-pool.o libpdftex.a -L/gnu/store/3snpwk7jl8i125bhiilvk9scqc4mnsx7-libpng-1.6.37/lib -L/gnu/store/qx7p7hiq90mi7r78hcr9cyskccy2j4bg-zlib-1.2.11/lib -lpng16 -lz -lz -L/gnu/store/18q4r8bpwmpm4w15zipf66l3bvdjzfbs-poppler-0.79.0/lib -lpoppler libmd5.a lib/lib.a /tmp/guix-build-texlive-bin-20190410.drv-0/build/texk/kpathsea/libkpathsea.la  -lm
libtool: link: g++ -Wreturn-type -Wno-write-strings -g -O2 -o pdftex pdftexdir/pdftex-pdftexextra.o synctexdir/pdftex-synctex.o pdftex-pdftexini.o pdftex-pdftex0.o pdftex-pdftex-pool.o  libpdftex.a -L/gnu/store/3snpwk7jl8i125bhiilvk9scqc4mnsx7-libpng-1.6.37/lib -L/gnu/store/qx7p7hiq90mi7r78hcr9cyskccy2j4bg-zlib-1.2.11/lib /gnu/store/3snpwk7jl8i125bhiilvk9scqc4mnsx7-libpng-1.6.37/lib/libpng16.so -lz -L/gnu/store/18q4r8bpwmpm4w15zipf66l3bvdjzfbs-poppler-0.79.0/lib -lpoppler libmd5.a lib/lib.a /tmp/guix-build-texlive-bin-20190410.drv-0/build/texk/kpathsea/.libs/libkpathsea.a -lm -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/gnu/store/3snpwk7jl8i125bhiilvk9scqc4mnsx7-libpng-1.6.37/lib -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/gnu/store/3snpwk7jl8i125bhiilvk9scqc4mnsx7-libpng-1.6.37/lib
ld: libpdftex.a(libpdftex_a-writeimg.o): in function `readimage':
/tmp/guix-build-texlive-bin-20190410.drv-0/build/texk/web2c/../../../texlive-20190410-source/texk/web2c/pdftexdir/writeimg.c:320: undefined reference to `read_pdf_info'
ld: libpdftex.a(libpdftex_a-writeimg.o): in function `undumpimagemeta':
/tmp/guix-build-texlive-bin-20190410.drv-0/build/texk/web2c/../../../texlive-20190410-source/texk/web2c/pdftexdir/writeimg.c:546: undefined reference to `read_pdf_info'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

read_pdf_info is defined precisely in the pdftoepdf-poppler*.cc

And using "strings" on libpdftex.a shows that the function name occurs.

Andreas