Bug 187381

Summary:	RFE: Build evince with --enable-dvi and --enable-djvu
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Mariano Suárez-Alvarez <mariano.suarezalvarez+bugzilla>
Component:	evince	Assignee:	Kristian Høgsberg <krh>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	5	CC:	hdegoede, jnovy, jspaleta, mcepl, motchy+fedora, nsoranzo
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OS:	Linux
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Description Mariano Suárez-Alvarez 2006-03-30 17:17:08 UTC

It really adds to the charm of evince that it is sort of a universal document
viewer. While both DVI and DJVU are not as common as PDF and PS, the support for
them in evince is quite good and does not carry much overweight, so it would be
very, very nice if the FC build included support for them---oh, btw, did I
mention that I spend my days typing LaTeX?

(This does add two dependencies... Maybe upstream would consider turning evince
into a modular thingie, so that formats can be added as plugins. That way the
xdvi package and extras's dvjulibre could drop in corresponding plugins into a
/usr/libexec/evince directory...)

Comment 1 Jonathan Underwood 2007-11-17 13:20:41 UTC

*** Bug 173514 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Jonathan Underwood 2007-11-17 13:22:35 UTC

Fedora 8 is out of the door without DVI support in Evince. Most other distros
have DVI support enabled in Evince. This bug, and related other requests for DVI
support have recieved no response from the maintainer, despite being filed as
far back as FC5. Please turn on dvi support in Evince.

Comment 3 Matthias Clasen 2007-11-18 00:38:24 UTC

This will add some extra dependencies to evince, and from my quick testing, at
least the djvu backend does not handle zooming correctly, but in principle, I
think it is a good idea to enable these backends. I'll talk to Kristian about it.

Comment 4 Matěj Cepl 2007-11-19 09:19:15 UTC

Moreover, if we want to impress people around universities need to use xdvi in
Gnome makes kind of "yuck" user experience. I have no idea about djvu.

Comment 5 Matthias Clasen 2007-11-19 23:20:41 UTC

I have asked for splitting djvulibre-libs off the main package here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=391201

Comment 6 Matthias Clasen 2007-11-20 03:53:21 UTC

So, I tried to build with --enable-dvi and --enable-djvu, but the build fails on
x86_64 with some linker error:

libkpathsea.a(tex-file.o): relocation R_X86_64_32S against `kpse_format_info'
can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC

So this will have to wait until the switchover to texlive happens, which will ship  
a shared kpathsea library.

Comment 7 Nicola Soranzo 2007-12-14 15:29:18 UTC

(In reply to comment #6)
> So this will have to wait until the switchover to texlive happens, which will
ship  
> a shared kpathsea library.

Now texlive is in rawhide, so can you try again?

Comment 8 Hans de Goede 2008-01-30 11:26:23 UTC

If I'm not mistaken evince as currently in rawhide has dvi and djvu enabled, so
this should be closed I think.

Comment 9 Mariano Suárez-Alvarez 2008-01-31 00:13:57 UTC

Cool. And the latest evince (I don't know if rawhide is that recent) does
implement plugins, too.

Comment 10 Matthias Clasen 2008-02-01 19:43:21 UTC

Yeah, there are evince-dvi and evince-djvu subpackages now, which isolate the
main evince package from troublesome dependencies.