[OS X TeX] xpdf i-Package?

Martin Henning martin at easy2design.de
Wed Dec 14 13:07:13 CET 2005


hey, compilation takes place on your machine, so if it's slow, get a  
bigger one :)
btw, use fink instead of darwinports - they also have binaries so you  
don't have to compile everything...

.martin

On Dec 14, 2005, at 2:57 PM, Bruno Voisin wrote:

> Installing xpdf this morning through DarwinPorts, I noticed there  
> were a number of tools that were installed with it and which are  
> already installed as i-Packages on my setup: ghostscript, libpng,  
> libiconv, freetype, etc. (see listing below).
>
> That shouldn't be a problem I guess, given /opt/local/bin is after / 
> usr/local/bin in my path:
>
> echo $PATH
> /bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/local/bin:/usr/ 
> local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current
>
> so that the i-Packages versions should always be used before the  
> DarwinPorts versions.
>
> However, given xpdf seems to be so much tied with other software  
> generally installed alongside gwTeX, I was wondering whether it  
> would make sense to provide an i-Package for it. (That, and the  
> fact it took DarwinPorts ages to perform the compilation of all  
> these tools!)
>
> The reason I installed xpdf: to have it around, to check whether  
> PDF files I create can be viewed by Linux users who would prefer  
> xpdf to Adobe Reader.
>
> Bruno Voisin
>
>
> Extract from the DarwinPorts output in Terminal:
>
> sudo port install xpdf
> --->  Fetching ghostscript
> --->  Attempting to fetch ghostscript-8.51.tar.gz from http:// 
> puzzle.dl.sourceforge.net/ghostscript
> --->  Attempting to fetch ghostscript-fonts-std-8.11.tar.gz from  
> http://puzzle.dl.sourceforge.net/gs-fonts
> --->  Attempting to fetch jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz from http:// 
> www.ijg.org/files/
> --->  Attempting to fetch libpng-1.2.8.tar.gz from http:// 
> puzzle.dl.sourceforge.net/libpng
> --->  Attempting to fetch zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz from http://www.zlib.net/
> [...]
> --->  Fetching libpaper
> --->  Attempting to fetch libpaper_1.1.14-3.tar.gz from http:// 
> ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libp/libpaper/
> [...]
> --->  Fetching expat
> --->  Attempting to fetch expat-1.95.8.tar.gz from http:// 
> easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/expat/
> [...]
> --->  Fetching zlib
> --->  Attempting to fetch zlib-1.2.3.tar.bz2 from http://www.zlib.net/
> [...]
> --->  Fetching freetype
> --->  Attempting to fetch freetype-2.1.9.tar.bz2 from http:// 
> puzzle.dl.sourceforge.net/freetype
> [...]
> --->  Fetching fontconfig
> --->  Attempting to fetch fontconfig-2.3.2.tar.gz from http:// 
> fontconfig.org/release/
> [...]
> --->  Fetching pkgconfig
> --->  Attempting to fetch pkg-config-0.20.tar.gz from http:// 
> pkgconfig.freedesktop.org/releases/
> [...]
> --->  Fetching render
> --->  Attempting to fetch renderext-0.9.tar.bz2 from http:// 
> xlibs.freedesktop.org/release/
> [...]
> --->  Fetching xrender
> --->  Attempting to fetch libXrender-0.9.0.tar.bz2 from http:// 
> xlibs.freedesktop.org/release/
> [...]
> --->  Fetching Xft2
> --->  Attempting to fetch libXft-2.1.7.tar.bz2 from http:// 
> xlibs.freedesktop.org/release/
> [...]
> --->  Fetching jpeg
> --->  Attempting to fetch jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz from http:// 
> www.ijg.org/files
> [...]
> --->  Fetching libiconv
> --->  Attempting to fetch libiconv-1.10.tar.gz from ftp:// 
> ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libiconv
> [...]
> --->  Fetching libpng
> --->  Attempting to fetch libpng-1.2.8.tar.bz2 from http:// 
> puzzle.dl.sourceforge.net/libpng
> [...]
> --->  Fetching openmotif
> --->  Attempting to fetch openmotif-2.3.0beta1-src.tar.gz from  
> http://ftp.motifzone.net/om2.3/
> [...]
> --->  Fetching t1lib
> --->  Attempting to fetch t1lib-5.0.2.tar.gz from http:// 
> sunsite.rediris.es/sites2/ibiblio.org/linux/libs/graphics/
> --->  Attempting to fetch t1lib-5.0.2.tar.gz from http:// 
> ftp.surfnet.nl/pub/sunsite/libs/graphics/
> --->  Attempting to fetch ltconfig13 from http://distfiles- 
> od.opendarwin.org/
> --->  Attempting to fetch ltmain13 from http://distfiles- 
> od.opendarwin.org/
> [...]
> --->  Fetching xpdf
> --->  Attempting to fetch xpdf-3.01.tar.gz from ftp:// 
> ftp.foolabs.com/pub/xpdf/
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