even though i have USE flag set to perl, pdflib refuses to build support for perl, as you can see... checking for perl... perl checking for Perl header file... /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i686-linux/CORE/perl.h checking for Python header files... /usr/include/python2.1 checking for python... python checking for Python shared library path... /usr/lib/python2.2/lib-dynload checking for Tcl header files... /usr/include checking for tclsh... tclsh checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... no checking for deflateEnd in -lz... yes checking for zlib.h... yes Note: user-supplied zlib - language bindings disabled checking for png_create_read_struct in -lpng -lz -lstdc++... yes checking for png.h... yes Note: user-supplied pnglib - language bindings disabled checking for PDF import library PDI... not found checking for c++... c++ checking whether the C++ compiler (c++ -march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer ) works... yes checking whether the C++ compiler (c++ -march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer ) is a cross-compiler... no checking whether we are using GNU C++... yes checking whether c++ accepts -g... yes checking whether the previously found C++ compiler works... yes updating cache ./config.cache creating ./config.status creating bind/java/Makefile creating bind/perl/Makefile creating bind/python/Makefile creating bind/tcl/Makefile creating tiff/Makefile creating bind/cpp/Makefile creating Makefile creating pdflib-config creating pdflib/Makefile creating test/Makefile creating clients/Makefile creating util/Makefile creating bind/c/Makefile _____________________________________________________________ For your convenience, here's a summary of configure's results: Support for shared libraries: yes C++ language binding for PDFlib: yes Java language binding for PDFlib: no Perl language binding for PDFlib: no Python language binding for PDFlib: no Tcl language binding for PDFlib: no PHP language binding for PDFlib: no PDF import library (PDI): no Note: if you purchase the additional PDF import library (PDI) you can also manipulate existing PDF documents with PDFlib. See http://www.pdflib.com for details. Please observe the licensing terms for commercial PDFlib usage. PDFlib license agreement and purchase order can be found in the doc directory.
pdflib-4.0.3-r1 has been released into portage. Currently marked unstable. This ebuild should install all language bindings properly.
this is to confirm that pdflib-4.0.3-r1 does install all language bindings.