Re: [NTG-pdftex] poppler usage, autoconf

Frank Küster writes:

Olaf Weber wrote:

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The reautoconf script in the source tree should be running the hacked-up autoconf 2.13 that's also in the source tree.

It should, as in "it is supposed to", but it doesn't:

frank@riesling:~/src/pdftex-1.40.0-beta-20060125/src$ head -4 reautoconf #!/bin/sh

echo . autoconf -m texk/etc/autoconf

executing "./reautoconf" just calls the autoconf that's in the path.

If this tree is derived from the texlive source tree, there might (should) be a reautoconf.texk in there.

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I don't _think_ you need autoconf 2.13 installed as well, but am not certain at this point. As Thomas points out, the autoconf mess should be resolved in the nearish future by 2.13 being abandoned.

As Thomas said, most of the work has already been done. Will this be ported to pdftex soon? Err, and who's going to do it?

If it isn't fixed in the standalone pdftex tree, this kind of issue tends to be addressed when the pdftex changes are merged back into web2c or teTeX. -- Olaf Weber (This space left blank for technical reasons.)