Bug 233514 - pdftk should use system libgcj
Summary: pdftk should use system libgcj
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: pdftk
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Thomas Fitzsimmons
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Depends On: 233528
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-03-22 20:42 UTC by Thomas Fitzsimmons
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version: 1.41-5.fc7
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2007-04-12 15:45:59 UTC
Type: ---
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Description Thomas Fitzsimmons 2007-03-22 20:42:30 UTC
pdftk bundles sources from GCJ, which it builds into the pdftk binary.  Instead,
it should dynamically link to the system-installed libgcj.

Ideally the same would be done for the iText dependency, but this is more
difficult because iText does not provide GCJ libraries that use the old-style
GCJ ABI.  Since pdftk uses CNI, and CNI relies on the old-style ABI the
short-term solution would be for iText to provide an old-ABI library alongside
its BC-ABI shared-object.  The long term solution is to make CNI work with the
BC ABI.

Comment 1 Jochen Schmitt 2007-03-25 20:05:37 UTC
Thank you for your request. Unfortunateley, I have some trouble to build a patch
version of pdftk on mock (FC7). Becouse it seems, you have a good knewledge
about the gcj stuff, I have uploaded the source rpm and the build log on

http://www.herr-schmitt.de/pub/pdftk/

I hope you can give me any hint to solve the problem.

Best Regards:

Jochen Schmitt

Comment 2 Thomas Fitzsimmons 2007-03-26 02:00:59 UTC
See Comment #1 on this bug report:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=233489

(We can continue discussion of the gcjh problem there, and use this bug report
for discussion of using system libraries.)


Comment 3 Thomas Fitzsimmons 2007-03-26 16:17:00 UTC
I talked with Andrew Haley about this.  He suggests building iText with
-fno-indirect-classes as a temporary workaround until CNI supports the BC ABI. 
I'll test a patch.


Comment 4 Thomas Fitzsimmons 2007-04-12 15:45:59 UTC
I committed a patch to make pdftk use the system-installed libgcj instead of
bundling libgcj classes.

I didn't do the same for iText because pdftk's bundled iText implementation
contains many local modifications.  I've contacted the upstream maintainer about
this.  I'm going to close this bug and file a new one for the iText bundling,
assigned to Jochen.



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