[CentOS] poppler-utils missing pdftoppm

Max Hetrick maxhetrick at verizon.net
Thu Feb 7 16:37:16 UTC 2008


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Ralph Angenendt wrote:

> Hmmm. I just rebuilt from the tar.gz which is in Upstream's SRPM - this
> doesn't build pdftoppm, although the Source is there.
> 
> Okay. The spec file does a:
> 
> %configure --enable-cairo-output --disable-splash-output
> 
> ChangeLog says:
> 
> 2006-02-23  Albert Astals Cid  <aacid at kde.org>
> 
>         * utils/Makefile.am: Do not build pdftoppm when SplashOutputDev
>         * is disabled as that does not work
> 
> rpm -q --changelog poppler says:
> 
> * Mon Sep 05 2005 Kristian Høgsberg <krh at redhat.com> - 0.4.2-1
> - Update to 0.4.2 and disable splash backend so we don't build it.
> 
> I think that explains it. Up to you if you want to file a bug report.
> But that sounds more like an RFE to me.

Thanks for checking into this, Ralph. I checked on my FC7 instance and
the changelog line is there as well, so I'm assuming
- --disable-splash-output is not part of poppler-0.5.4-7.fc7 package,
which explains why pdftoppm is present on the FC7 instance.

Thanks again!
Max
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