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

[The Thanh Han]

Hello Hilmar,
On Sat, 28 Oct 2023 at 09:57, The Thanh Han <hanthethanh at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
I tested the pdf output with pdftotext and gs, and it seems fine.

What are the exact commands that failed?

Regards,
Thanh
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