[tlbuild] Problem compiling texlive on RHEL6

[Digimer]

On 11/17/2010 11:56 PM, Norbert Preining wrote:
> 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.

Like I said, I'm new to TL and was just going with what was in the distro.

> 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.

If I can't sort this out soon, I'll do that, thank you. Sorry for the 
line noise here.

>> 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 did, that's why I grabbed this part of the output. I gave more than 
just this line to give context. I asked because I couldn't find 
'poppler-version.h' despite having met the dependencies.

>>    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.

Not being familiar with poppler either, I had hoped it would have been 
provided. I wasn't sure if this was an issue with poppler or TL, so I 
decided to start here.

> 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.

Indeed, which is why I said "Obviously I can't expect a Fedora 14 source 
to just work on RHEL6". :)

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

Thanks for the reply.

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