Interesting stuff. Thanks!

Also, I'm interested to see where you go with making a package manager. Are
you using git / github?
On Apr 17, 2013 7:37 AM, "LM" <[email protected]> wrote:

> If you like keyboard over mouse (which I do), mupdf is a nice
> alternative.  Zoom is with + and -
> keys ( see http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/natty/man1/mupdf.1.html).  ? 
> brings up the help
> information for commands (which can be easy to forget with this program).
> It is a very minimal PDF
> viewer, but as I mentioned, performance (especially paging through large
> PDF files), is good.  I've read
> that it also handles cbz file viewing, but haven't tried it yet.
>
> When I built mupdf (which was a while ago before the openjpeg changes), I
> built all the libraries
> separately and let it to use the system libraries.  From my notes, the
> steps for building mupdf were something like:
> Skip the configure step.
> make build=release
> make prefix=$DESTDIR build=release install DESTDIR=$DESTDIR
>
> Before building, I told it where the freetype include files and other
> related include files were:
> export XCFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include/freetype2 -I/usr/local/include/
> $CFLAGS"
>
> If you're using /usr/include instead of /usr/local/include, change it to
> that or whatever directories are relevant on your system.
>
> I also have a note about adding any missing X libraries (-l options) it
> might not be able to find
> by exporting them with XLIBS environment variable.
>
>
> As to the .la files, I remove them during the build process.  Haven't
> tried doing it afterwards in the /usr/lib directory.
> I'm sort of writing my own package manager that automates some of the
> build process.  I build and install applications
> to DESTDIR and then package and create a tarball from them.  Part of the
> packaging process is to do
> things like compress the man files (.gz) and another part is to eliminate
> any .la files under lib in DESTDIR.
> So far, haven't noticed any issues by doing so and it's actually resolved
> a few situations I was having
> when I wasn't doing this.  From what I've read, the .la files are used at
> build time by libtool to
> figure out how to handle libraries.  Since I'm building to DESTDIR, but
> installing someplace else,
> sometimes the .la files end up pointing to the wrong locations.
> Read that Debian and a couple of other distributions were removing their
> .la files and didn't have any
> issues doing so.  Here were some of the references I ran across when I
> looked into adding this step to
> my build process:
> http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/LAFileRemoval
>
> http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev-announce/msg_3fd5f34db7e0947ade0b08fbea0825da.xml
>
> Sincerely,
> Laura
>
>
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