[tldistro] Bug#675109: evince: DVI support broken

[Norbert Preining]

Hi Karl, hi Peter,

do you remember the discussion on kpse_cnf_get ... it seems
that it is still not fully functional again, as it seems to not
be exported or included in the shared lib:

On Mi, 30 Mai 2012, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > When I try to open a DVI file with evince, it says there is no support for that format. But I used to open DVI files before the upgrade to evince 3.4
...

> > (evince:27058): EvinceDocument-WARNING **: Cannot load backend 'dvidocument' since file '/usr/lib/evince/4/backends/libdvidocument.so' cannot be read.
> > 
> > I was suspicious of a problem with libkpathsea6 dropping that kpse_cnf_get symbol, so I though a rebuild of evince could fix the problem, but it did not.
> > 
> > It seems like kpse_cnf_get does not exist (anymore?) in libkpathsea6, but
> > nonetheless evince still builds fine and ends up with libdvidocument.so using
> > kpse_cnf_get ...
> 
> Norbert,
> objdump -tT /usr/lib/libkpathsea.so.6 | grep kpse_cnf_get
> indeed does not list kpse_cnf_get for libkpathsea6_2012.20120516-1.
> It looks like
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=673016
> hasn't been fixed properly.

Is there something that has been checked in *after 2012-05-16 to
fix that? Or is there anything we should cehck in?

Or, since we don't need shared builds for TeX Live proper, I can also
apply a patch only to the Debian packages, but I guess many distribution
builders will face the same problem.

Best wishes

Norbert
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