[tlbuild] Problem compiling texlive on RHEL6

[Norbert Preining]

Hi,

On Mi, 17 Nov 2010, Digimer wrote:
>   I have to admit ignorance of Texlive. :)
>
>   I ran into it while trying to get Xen installed on RHEL6. Texlive was  
> a dependency of a dependency, and I've thus far failed to compile it  
> from the source RPM texlive-2007-56.fc14.src.rpm. Obviously I can't  

2007??? Please direct these questions to the RH people, we don't 
know anything about the packaging of TeX Live in distros.

You can try the tldistro mailing list where some distro packagers
are available. This list is for the communication with the people
building the binaries for TeX Live proper.

> pdftosrc.cc:27:41: error: poppler/cpp/poppler-version.h: No such file or  

Well, no need to be a genius here, what about that *YOU* read the
error messages?

>   I also built poppler from source (poppler-0.12.4-3.el6_0.1.src.rpm)  
> and installed:
>
> cd ~
> rpm -Uvh rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/poppler-0.12.4-3.el6.1.x86_64.rpm \
>          rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/poppler-devel-0.12.4-3.el6.1.x86_64.rpm \
>          rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/poppler-glib-* \
>          rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/poppler-qt* \
>          rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/poppler-utils-0.12.4-3.el6.1.x86_64.rpm \
>          rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/poppler-debuginfo-0.12.4-3.el6.1.x86_64.rpm
>
>   Any tips/pointers/beatings-with-clue-sticks would be much appreciated. :)

SO I guess you have to find where poppler-devel 0.12... install the
files, esp poppler/cpp/poppler-version.h, and then adjust the
paths.

This is actually fairly normal build process fixing, nothing specific
to TeX Live. If you transplant the build environment from one
system to a completely other it might not work out of the box.

Last but not least ... TL2007 is 3 years old and we have release
already TL2010.

Best wishes

Norbert
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