[pdftex] pdflatex failures on big-endian architectures (s390x / ppc64)

[The Thanh Han]

Hello Hilmar,

On Fri, 27 Oct 2023 at 23:41, Hilmar Preuße <hille42 at web.de> wrote:

> On 10/27/23 17:47, The Thanh Han wrote:
>
> Hello Thanh,
>
> > I have committed the bugfix to pdftex repo.
> >
> I've copied the patch from [1], applied it to the Debian source package,
> rebuilt the package and copied the pdftex binary to /home.. The patch
> applied cleanly, but the resulting binary did not solve the issue. The
> pdftex can create the pdf file, but after converting to a text file
> using gs / pdftotext the issue is not solved.
>
> I've copied my binary to /var/tmp/pdftex_hille42_20231027 on that box,
> could you test it or provide your pdftex executable? The file was not
> created on that server, but on a Debian box, but this should not matter.
>
>
I tested the binary /var/tmp/pdftex_hille42_20231027 and the pdf output
has the correct CMap entries. But I haven't tested text extraction yet.
There
might be more problems than the one Ross discovered.

I will do some more testing and get back soon.

Regards,
Thanh
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