Bug#353693: tetex-bin: pdfetex is linked against unused(?) libraries

2009-12-27 Thread Hilmar Preusse 
reassign 353693 texlive-binaries
found 353693 2009-4
stop

On 20.02.06 Ralf Stubner (ralf.stub...@web.de) wrote:

Hi Ralf,

 $ ldd /usr/bin/pdfetex
 libpng12.so.0 = /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 (0xb7fb2000)
 libkpathsea.so.4 = /usr/lib/libkpathsea.so.4 (0xb7f9e000)
 libpoppler.so.0 = /usr/lib/libpoppler.so.0 (0xb7e8a000)
 libcairo.so.2 = /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2 (0xb7e48000)
 libXrender.so.1 = /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0xb7e4)
 libX11.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0xb7d79000)
 libfreetype.so.6 = /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0xb7d0c000)
 libz.so.1 = /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0xb7cf9000)
 libfontconfig.so.1 = /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0xb7cca000)
 libjpeg.so.62 = /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62 (0xb7cac000)
 libstdc++.so.5 = /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 (0xb7bf2000)
 libm.so.6 = /lib/tls/libm.so.6 (0xb7bd)
 libgcc_s.so.1 = /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb7bc7000)
 libc.so.6 = /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0xb7a91000)
 libdl.so.2 = /lib/tls/libdl.so.2 (0xb7a8e000)
 libexpat.so.1 = /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1 (0xb7a6e000)
 /lib/ld-linux.so.2 = /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7fea000)
 
 I see no reason why pdfetex should be linked against libXrender, libX11,
 libfreetype, libfontconfig (would be intersting, though), and libexpat.
 Or am I missing something?
 
In TL 2009 the situation improved somewhat:

hi...@sid:~ $ ldd /usr/bin/pdfetex
linux-gate.so.1 =  (0xb774d000)
libpng12.so.0 = /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 (0xb771c000)
libz.so.1 = /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0xb7708000)
libpoppler.so.5 = /usr/lib/libpoppler.so.5 (0xb7544000)
libkpathsea.so.5 = /usr/lib/libkpathsea.so.5 (0xb752d000)
libstdc++.so.6 = /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb743c000)
libm.so.6 = /lib/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xb7416000)
libgcc_s.so.1 = /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb73f9000)
libc.so.6 = /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb72b2000)
liblcms.so.1 = /usr/lib/liblcms.so.1 (0xb727c000)
libjpeg.so.62 = /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62 (0xb725c000)
libopenjpeg.so.2 = /usr/lib/libopenjpeg.so.2 (0xb723f000)
libxml2.so.2 = /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 (0xb7106000)
libfreetype.so.6 = /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0xb708f000)
libfontconfig.so.1 = /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0xb7063000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb774e000)
libdl.so.2 = /lib/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb705f000)
libexpat.so.1 = /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1 (0xb7039000)

- at least the dep on the X-Libs disappeared.

Is this sufficient to close the bug? Reassigning for now.

Hilmar
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Bug#353693: tetex-bin: pdfetex is linked against unused(?) libraries

2006-03-03 Thread Norbert Preining 
On Don, 02 Mär 2006, Norbert Preining wrote:
  Norbert, can you please run ldd on texlive's pdfetex binary to see
  whether the problem also exists in texlive - I guess yes.
 
 [~] ldd /usr/bin/pdfetex 
 linux-gate.so.1 =  (0xe000)
 libpng12.so.0 = /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 (0xb7ee9000)
 libz.so.1 = /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0xb7ed5000)
 libm.so.6 = /lib/tls/libm.so.6 (0xb7eae000)
 libc.so.6 = /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0xb7d76000)
 libpoppler.so.0 = /usr/lib/libpoppler.so.0 (0xb7c67000)
 /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f2d000)
 libfontconfig.so.1 = /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0xb7c38000)
 libjpeg.so.62 = /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62 (0xb7c18000)
 libfreetype.so.6 = /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0xb7bab000)
 libstdc++.so.6 = /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb7acd000)
 libgcc_s.so.1 = /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb7ac2000)
 libexpat.so.1 = /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1 (0xb7aa2000)

Making Steves test I get:
  NEEDED  libpng12.so.0
  NEEDED  libz.so.1
  NEEDED  libm.so.6
  NEEDED  libc.so.6
  NEEDED  libpoppler.so.0
which looks very reasonable.

Best wishes

Norbert

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Bug#353693: tetex-bin: pdfetex is linked against unused(?) libraries

2006-03-02 Thread Frank Küster 
Ralf Stubner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 14:23 +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
 
 I tried to follow the instructions at
 http://people.debian.org/~keybuk/libtool-updating.html, but because of
 the unusual setup it doesn't work so easy.
 
 At rsync://tug.org/tetexdevsrc/ there's an updated teTeX tree, and with
 this I get a bit farther - it works without errors.  But, probably
 because automake isn't used, the simple procedure does not work, and I
 end up with pdfetex linked against lots of libraries, again:

 Grr ... I guess we would need somebody who really understands this
 library stuff to fix this for tetex-bin. As long as there is no library
 transition for one of those libraries I am not sure if it is worth
 putting much work into this, though.

Norbert, can you please run ldd on texlive's pdfetex binary to see
whether the problem also exists in texlive - I guess yes.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)

Bug#353693: tetex-bin: pdfetex is linked against unused(?) libraries

2006-03-02 Thread Norbert Preining 
On Don, 02 Mär 2006, Frank Küster wrote:
 Norbert, can you please run ldd on texlive's pdfetex binary to see
 whether the problem also exists in texlive - I guess yes.

[~] ldd /usr/bin/pdfetex 
linux-gate.so.1 =  (0xe000)
libpng12.so.0 = /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 (0xb7ee9000)
libz.so.1 = /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0xb7ed5000)
libm.so.6 = /lib/tls/libm.so.6 (0xb7eae000)
libc.so.6 = /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0xb7d76000)
libpoppler.so.0 = /usr/lib/libpoppler.so.0 (0xb7c67000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f2d000)
libfontconfig.so.1 = /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0xb7c38000)
libjpeg.so.62 = /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62 (0xb7c18000)
libfreetype.so.6 = /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0xb7bab000)
libstdc++.so.6 = /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb7acd000)
libgcc_s.so.1 = /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb7ac2000)
libexpat.so.1 = /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1 (0xb7aa2000)

Best wishes

Norbert

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Bug#353693: tetex-bin: pdfetex is linked against unused(?) libraries

2006-03-02 Thread Ralf Stubner 
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 09:49 +0100, Norbert Preining wrote:
 [~] ldd /usr/bin/pdfetex 
 linux-gate.so.1 =  (0xe000)
 libpng12.so.0 = /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 (0xb7ee9000)
 libz.so.1 = /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0xb7ed5000)
 libm.so.6 = /lib/tls/libm.so.6 (0xb7eae000)
 libc.so.6 = /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0xb7d76000)
 libpoppler.so.0 = /usr/lib/libpoppler.so.0 (0xb7c67000)
 /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f2d000)
 libfontconfig.so.1 = /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0xb7c38000)
 libjpeg.so.62 = /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62 (0xb7c18000)
 libfreetype.so.6 = /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0xb7bab000)
 libstdc++.so.6 = /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb7acd000)
 libgcc_s.so.1 = /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb7ac2000)
 libexpat.so.1 = /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1 (0xb7aa2000)

Interesting. This are fewer libs than in teTeX (eg, cairo, Xrender and
X11 are not linked), but there are still some unnecessary ones
(at least fontconfig, freetype and expat).

cheerio
ralf


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Bug#353693: tetex-bin: pdfetex is linked against unused(?) libraries

2006-03-02 Thread Frank Küster 
Norbert Preining [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Don, 02 Mär 2006, Frank Küster wrote:
 Norbert, can you please run ldd on texlive's pdfetex binary to see
 whether the problem also exists in texlive - I guess yes.

 [~] ldd /usr/bin/pdfetex 
 linux-gate.so.1 =  (0xe000)
 libpng12.so.0 = /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 (0xb7ee9000)
 libz.so.1 = /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0xb7ed5000)
 libm.so.6 = /lib/tls/libm.so.6 (0xb7eae000)
 libc.so.6 = /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0xb7d76000)
 libpoppler.so.0 = /usr/lib/libpoppler.so.0 (0xb7c67000)
 /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f2d000)
 libfontconfig.so.1 = /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0xb7c38000)
 libjpeg.so.62 = /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62 (0xb7c18000)
 libfreetype.so.6 = /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0xb7bab000)
 libstdc++.so.6 = /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb7acd000)
 libgcc_s.so.1 = /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb7ac2000)
 libexpat.so.1 = /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1 (0xb7aa2000)

Ah, that's interesting.  It doesn't depend on libcairo (but that might
be due to the recent poppler changes), libkpathsea4 (which is a bug),
libXrender, libX11, and libdl.  But still on libfontconfig, libfreetype
and libexpat.

Regards, Frank
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Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)

Bug#353693: tetex-bin: pdfetex is linked against unused(?) libraries

2006-02-25 Thread Ralf Stubner 
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 14:23 +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
 
 I tried to follow the instructions at
 http://people.debian.org/~keybuk/libtool-updating.html, but because of
 the unusual setup it doesn't work so easy.
 
 At rsync://tug.org/tetexdevsrc/ there's an updated teTeX tree, and with
 this I get a bit farther - it works without errors.  But, probably
 because automake isn't used, the simple procedure does not work, and I
 end up with pdfetex linked against lots of libraries, again:

Grr ... I guess we would need somebody who really understands this
library stuff to fix this for tetex-bin. As long as there is no library
transition for one of those libraries I am not sure if it is worth
putting much work into this, though.

cheerio
ralf




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Bug#353693: tetex-bin: pdfetex is linked against unused(?) libraries

2006-02-21 Thread Frank Küster 
Ralf Stubner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Frank Küster wrote:
 Ralf Stubner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 I see no reason why pdfetex should be linked against libXrender, libX11,
 libfreetype, libfontconfig (would be intersting, though), and libexpat.
 Or am I missing something?
 
 Yes, you are missing that
 
 id:/home/frank# ldd /usr/lib/libpoppler.so.0.0.0 
 [...]

 And because libpoppler is linked against, say, libexpat that happens to
 pdfetex, too? I think this is similar (the same?) to the situation
 described in
 URL:http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/11/msg00016.html.

Yes, you are right.

 I am not sure, though, if I would like to tinker with teTeX's (IMO
 rather complicated) build system.

I tried to follow the instructions at
http://people.debian.org/~keybuk/libtool-updating.html, but because of
the unusual setup it doesn't work so easy.

At rsync://tug.org/tetexdevsrc/ there's an updated teTeX tree, and with
this I get a bit farther - it works without errors.  But, probably
because automake isn't used, the simple procedure does not work, and I
end up with pdfetex linked against lots of libraries, again:

$ ldd sid/tetex-src/texk/web2c/.libs/pdfetex 
libpng12.so.0 = /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 (0xb7ec1000)
libkpathsea.so.4 = /usr/lib/libkpathsea.so.4 (0xb7ead000)
libpoppler.so.0 = /usr/lib/libpoppler.so.0 (0xb7d99000)
libcairo.so.2 = /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2 (0xb7d57000)
libXrender.so.1 = /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0xb7d4e000)
libX11.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0xb7c82000)
libfontconfig.so.1 = /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0xb7c53000)
libjpeg.so.62 = /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62 (0xb7c34000)
libfreetype.so.6 = /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0xb7bc7000)
libz.so.1 = /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0xb7bb5000)
libstdc++.so.6 = not found
libm.so.6 = /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xb7b93000)
libgcc_s.so.1 = /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb7b8a000)
libc.so.6 = /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb7a54000)
libstdc++.so.5 = /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 (0xb799a000)
libdl.so.2 = /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb7997000)
libexpat.so.1 = /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1 (0xb7977000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 = /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7ef8000)
 

Gruß, Frank
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Debian Developer (teTeX)

Bug#353693: tetex-bin: pdfetex is linked against unused(?) libraries

2006-02-20 Thread Ralf Stubner 
Package: tetex-bin
Version: 3.0-13sarge14
Severity: normal

$ ldd /usr/bin/pdfetex
libpng12.so.0 = /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 (0xb7fb2000)
libkpathsea.so.4 = /usr/lib/libkpathsea.so.4 (0xb7f9e000)
libpoppler.so.0 = /usr/lib/libpoppler.so.0 (0xb7e8a000)
libcairo.so.2 = /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2 (0xb7e48000)
libXrender.so.1 = /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0xb7e4)
libX11.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0xb7d79000)
libfreetype.so.6 = /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0xb7d0c000)
libz.so.1 = /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0xb7cf9000)
libfontconfig.so.1 = /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0xb7cca000)
libjpeg.so.62 = /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62 (0xb7cac000)
libstdc++.so.5 = /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 (0xb7bf2000)
libm.so.6 = /lib/tls/libm.so.6 (0xb7bd)
libgcc_s.so.1 = /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb7bc7000)
libc.so.6 = /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0xb7a91000)
libdl.so.2 = /lib/tls/libdl.so.2 (0xb7a8e000)
libexpat.so.1 = /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1 (0xb7a6e000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 = /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7fea000)

I see no reason why pdfetex should be linked against libXrender, libX11,
libfreetype, libfontconfig (would be intersting, though), and libexpat.
Or am I missing something?

cheerio
ralf

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Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-thinkpad
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages tetex-bin depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2 1.4.38Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils2.10.2Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  dpkg   1.10.28   Package maintenance system for Deb
ii  ed 0.2-20The classic unix line editor
ii  libc6  2.3.2.ds1-22  GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libcairo2  1.0.2-2sarge3 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libfontconfig1 2.3.1-2   generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6   2.1.7-2.4 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgcc11:3.4.3-13GCC support library
ii  libice64.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libjpeg62  6b-10 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libkpathsea4   3.0-13sarge14 path search library for teTeX (run
ii  libpaper1  1.1.14-3  Library for handling paper charact
ii  libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-1PNG library - runtime
ii  libpoppler00.4.5-0sarge1 PDF rendering library
ii  libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Window System Session Management
ii  libstdc++5 1:3.3.5-13The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libt1-55.0.2-3   Type 1 font rasterizer library - r
ii  libx11-6   4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxaw74.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Athena widget set library
ii  libxext6   4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  libxmu64.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Window System miscellaneous util
ii  libxpm44.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X pixmap library
ii  libxrender10.8.3-7   X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxt6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii  mime-support   3.28-1MIME files 'mime.types'  'mailcap
ii  perl   5.8.4-8sarge3 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  sed4.1.2-8   The GNU sed stream editor
ii  tetex-base 3.0-14Basic library files of teTeX
ii  ucf1.17  Update Configuration File: preserv
ii  xlibs  4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii  zlib1g 1:1.2.2-4.sarge.2 compression library - runtime

-- debconf information:
  tetex-bin/cnf_name:
  tetex-bin/userperm: false
* tetex-bin/texmf: true
* tetex-bin/groupname: users
  tetex-bin/groupperm: true
* tetex-bin/lsr-perms: true


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Bug#353693: tetex-bin: pdfetex is linked against unused(?) libraries

2006-02-20 Thread Frank Küster 
Ralf Stubner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I see no reason why pdfetex should be linked against libXrender, libX11,
 libfreetype, libfontconfig (would be intersting, though), and libexpat.
 Or am I missing something?

Yes, you are missing that

id:/home/frank# ldd /usr/lib/libpoppler.so.0.0.0 
linux-gate.so.1 =  (0xe000)
libcairo.so.2 = /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2 (0xb7e15000)
libfontconfig.so.1 = /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0xb7de6000)
libjpeg.so.62 = /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62 (0xb7dc6000)
libfreetype.so.6 = /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0xb7d59000)
libz.so.1 = /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0xb7d45000)
libstdc++.so.6 = /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb7c67000)
libm.so.6 = /lib/tls/libm.so.6 (0xb7c41000)
libc.so.6 = /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0xb7b09000)
libgcc_s.so.1 = /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb7afe000)
libXrender.so.1 = /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0xb7af5000)
libX11.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0xb7a2a000)
libpng12.so.0 = /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 (0xb7a04000)
libexpat.so.1 = /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1 (0xb79e4000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x8000)
libdl.so.2 = /lib/tls/libdl.so.2 (0xb79e)


I have talked to the poppler people, and at least someone said they
would be willing to provide a version (ideally a wrapper library that
doesn't expose all those internal symbols) stripped down for non-display
use.  But I fear this isn't top priority, and I won't have the time and
knowledge to provide a patch.

Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)

Bug#353693: tetex-bin: pdfetex is linked against unused(?) libraries

2006-02-20 Thread Ralf Stubner 
Frank Küster wrote:
 Ralf Stubner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 I see no reason why pdfetex should be linked against libXrender, libX11,
 libfreetype, libfontconfig (would be intersting, though), and libexpat.
 Or am I missing something?
 
 Yes, you are missing that
 
 id:/home/frank# ldd /usr/lib/libpoppler.so.0.0.0 
[...]

And because libpoppler is linked against, say, libexpat that happens to
pdfetex, too? I think this is similar (the same?) to the situation
described in
URL:http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/11/msg00016.html.
I am not sure, though, if I would like to tinker with teTeX's (IMO
rather complicated) build system.

cheerio
ralf