Bug 652212

Summary:	app-text/texlive-core-2017-r3: Remove xpdfopen, or fix its X dependencies
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Ulrich Müller <ulm>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Alexis Ballier <aballier>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	tex
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2018-March/041243.html
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2018-04-02 13:27:58 UTC

Are the xpdfopen utils still needed? pdfopen should be replaced by xdg-open, and pdfclose was never needed on Unix like systems.

If it turns out that they are still needed, utils/xpdfopen/Makefile.am and utils/xpdfopen/xpdfopen-src/Makefile.am both contain this line:

LDADD = $(X_LIBS) -lX11 -lXmu $(X_EXTRA_LIBS)

Looks like libXmu isn't actually needed. There is neither any X11/Xmu header file included in the sources, nor is there any DT_NEEDED tag for libXmu in the resulting binaries. So the Makefile could be patched, removing -lXmu.

In either case, the x11-libs/libXmu dependency could be removed from the ebuild, as these are the only two programs linking against libXmu.

Comment 1 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2022-06-07 09:29:47 UTC

Ping. Same issue still with texlive-core-2021-r1.