On 2016-06-22, Bill Hollingsworth <[email protected]> wrote: > I am using a system where I must install poppler in a subdirectory tree of > /var. I am using the --prefix=DIR option of ./configure to compile it. > > I need to use some of the poppler utilities (e.g., pdftotext). pdftotext (in > /var/task/poppler/utils) wants to write a temporary file in > /var/task/poppler/utils/.libs at each run. > > On the system I am using, pdftotext does not have permission to write to > /var/task/poppler/utils/.libs and I am not able to give it that permission. I > copied pdftotext to /tmp and pdftotext successfully created the subdirectory > /tmp/.libs but does not have permission to write to it. > > Those are the confines of the system I am using. Is it possible to compile > poppler to use /tmp for the temporary files rather than creating a .libs > subdirectory?
Have you actually installed poppler? The behaviour you mention sounds like the way libtool scripts set up the environment so that the correct libraries are used by a not installed application. But that's really only meant to be used in a development environment. I expect that if you have actually installed poppler, by using "make install", that the binaries would instead be placed in somewhere like /var/task/poppler/bin, they would be real binaries instead of libtool scripts, and they wouldn't be trying to write to a .libs directory. _______________________________________________ poppler mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler
