[tex-live] pdfnup (pdfTeX) error

Stefan Husmann stefan-husmann at t-online.de
Fri Dec 14 22:25:02 CET 2018


Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at> writes:

> Hi Orm,

>
> Please contact the Arch people about this, since it is not reproducible
> in *real* *upstream* TeX Live.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Norbert
>
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Hello,

I am also on Arch Linux, but I use the Original TeXLive, and there
everything works fine.

Arch Linux has the philosophy to not patch packages much, but they have
also the philosophy to use system libraries as much as possible, and the
texlive-bin package is linked against systems's poppler, which is at
version 0.71.0. I think this is the most important difference.

The patches Arch applies can be viewed here:
https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk?h=packages/texlive-bin

What th OP could to is to run

ldd $(which pdftex)

The original pdftex has this:

        linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fffac350000)
        libm.so.6 => /usr/lib/libm.so.6 (0x00007fb8ccaa3000)
        libc.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007fb8cc8df000)
        /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 => /usr/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fb8ccc73000)

The Arch delivered one should have some more shared libs. I happen to
have an older package lying around on my system, but for the version the
OP has it should be similar.

[haawda at frege bin]$ ldd pdftex
        linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffd481fc000)
        libpng16.so.16 => /usr/lib/libpng16.so.16 (0x00007f97a184b000)
        libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x00007f97a1634000)
        libpoppler.so.82 => /usr/lib/libpoppler.so.82 (0x00007f97a134f000)
        libkpathsea.so.6 => not found
        libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f97a11c0000)
        libm.so.6 => /usr/lib/libm.so.6 (0x00007f97a103b000)
        libgcc_s.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f97a101f000)
        libc.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007f97a0e5b000)
        libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0x00007f97a0b92000)
        libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0x00007f97a0b4b000)
        libjpeg.so.8 => /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.8 (0x00007f97a0ab6000)
        libcurl.so.4 => /usr/lib/libcurl.so.4 (0x00007f97a0a29000)
        libsmime3.so => /usr/lib/libsmime3.so (0x00007f97a09fd000)
        libnss3.so => /usr/lib/libnss3.so (0x00007f97a08cf000)
        libnspr4.so => /usr/lib/libnspr4.so (0x00007f97a088d000)
        libopenjp2.so.7 => /usr/lib/libopenjp2.so.7 (0x00007f97a0830000)
        liblcms2.so.2 => /usr/lib/liblcms2.so.2 (0x00007f97a05d5000)
        libtiff.so.5 => /usr/lib/libtiff.so.5 (0x00007f97a054a000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f97a0527000)
        /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 => /usr/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f97a1a74000)
        libbz2.so.1.0 => /usr/lib/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007f97a0514000)
        libharfbuzz.so.0 => /usr/lib/libharfbuzz.so.0 (0x00007f97a042e000)
        libexpat.so.1 => /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1 (0x00007f97a03f2000)
        libuuid.so.1 => /usr/lib/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f97a03e9000)
        libnghttp2.so.14 => /usr/lib/libnghttp2.so.14 (0x00007f97a03bf000)
        libidn2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libidn2.so.0 (0x00007f97a01a2000)
        libssh2.so.1 => /usr/lib/libssh2.so.1 (0x00007f97a0172000)
        libpsl.so.5 => /usr/lib/libpsl.so.5 (0x00007f979ff62000)
        libssl.so.1.1 => /usr/lib/libssl.so.1.1 (0x00007f979fed2000)
        libcrypto.so.1.1 => /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.1.1 (0x00007f979fc00000)
        libgssapi_krb5.so.2 => /usr/lib/libgssapi_krb5.so.2 (0x00007f979f9b0000)
        libkrb5.so.3 => /usr/lib/libkrb5.so.3 (0x00007f979f6c7000)
        libk5crypto.so.3 => /usr/lib/libk5crypto.so.3 (0x00007f979f494000)
        libcom_err.so.2 => /usr/lib/libcom_err.so.2 (0x00007f979f48e000)
        libnssutil3.so => /usr/lib/libnssutil3.so (0x00007f979f45b000)
        libplds4.so => /usr/lib/libplds4.so (0x00007f979f456000)
        libplc4.so => /usr/lib/libplc4.so (0x00007f979f44d000)
        libdl.so.2 => /usr/lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f979f448000)
        librt.so.1 => /usr/lib/librt.so.1 (0x00007f979f43e000)
        libzstd.so.1 => /usr/lib/libzstd.so.1 (0x00007f979f3a6000)
        liblzma.so.5 => /usr/lib/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007f979f180000)
        libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f979f05b000)
        libgraphite2.so.3 => /usr/lib/libgraphite2.so.3 (0x00007f979f036000)
        libunistring.so.2 => /usr/lib/libunistring.so.2 (0x00007f979ecb6000)
        libkrb5support.so.0 => /usr/lib/libkrb5support.so.0 (0x00007f979eaa9000)
        libkeyutils.so.1 => /usr/lib/libkeyutils.so.1 (0x00007f979eaa2000)
        libresolv.so.2 => /usr/lib/libresolv.so.2 (0x00007f979ea87000)
        libpcre.so.1 => /usr/lib/libpcre.so.1 (0x00007f979e815000)

Also file sizes differ:

[haawda at frege bin]$ ls -l pdftex
-rwxr-xr-x 1 haawda haawda 914328  2. Nov 00:29 pdftex
[haawda at frege bin]$ ls -l $(which pdftex)
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2175808 20. Sep 00:51 /usr/local/texlive/2018/bin/x86_64-linux/pdftex

So the issue indeed should be reported on Arch Linux bugtracker
(https://bugs.archlinux.org/).

Best Regards

Stefan Husmann




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