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 => (0xffffe000) 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 (0x80000000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/tls/libdl.so.2 (0xb79e0000) 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 -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)