[tldistro] libxpdf vs poppler

[Martin Schröder]

2008/4/20 Alexis Ballier <aballier at gentoo.org>:
>  Its enclosed to this mail, but let me detail it a bit:
>  It adds a configure option --with-poppler to make it use poppler
>  instead of xpdf; for now this will probably break everything but
>  pdftex in texlive that uses xpdf.
>  The checks for poppler can probably be improved (like not using
>  pkgconfig as afaict it would be the only one in texlive that uses it;
>  and definitely not using it for the first time under an 'if' without
>  initialising it with PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG somewhere else).
>
>  It hacks in the new interface with #defines to directly use poppler's
>  classes instead of wrapping them. I'm not sure if that's the best idea
>  ever... but this avoids lots of #if for GString vs GooString

I'd highly prefer a version without those #defines, but I understand
that's much easier. But you also must patch getPDFlibName and
getPDFLibVersion in pdflib.cc; it's poppler and not xpdf. :-)

Is the --with-poppler flag enough or do we also need a --with-poppler-dir?

Best
   Martin