Re: pdftk -

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Rob Munsch <rmunsch@solutionsforprogress.com> wrote:

> Frank Küster wrote:
>
>> Hm, maybe.  Technically, the patch I posted (which edits
>> Debian.Makefile, just as you did, and changes/adds the necessary
>> dependencies in debian/control) should work if you replace the libgcj
>> version.  Then, the backport should be compiled in a clean environment,
>> like a pbuilder chroot.
>>
>> I can do that tomorrow and upload it, if you like.
>
> Seriously??  That would be awesome, as i could then pin the multitude
> of dev boxxen here to backports for it.  Thank you!

Sorry, I still get a problem in my sarge or sarge-backports pbuilder
chroot:

make[3]: Entering directory `/tmp/buildd/pdftk-1.40/java_libs/com/lowagie/text'
gcj-3.3 -O2 --encoding=UTF-8 --classpath="/tmp/buildd/pdftk-1.40/java_libs" -c Anchor.java -o Anchor.o
/tmp/buildd/pdftk-1.40/java_libs/com/lowagie/text/pdf/codec/postscript/PAPencil.java:290: error: Type `GlyphVector' not found in the declaration of the local variable `glyphVector'.
   	GlyphVector glyphVector = this.state.font.createGlyphVector(this.graphics.getFontRenderContext(), aString);
           ^
1 error
make[3]: *** [Anchor.o] Error 1

Can you show me your source package, and maybe a build log?

Regards, Frank
-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)