Andrew Overholt wrote:
* Andrew Haley <aph(a)redhat.com> [2009-02-02 07:45]:
> Andrew Overholt wrote:
>> Can anyone with CNI experience please help with this bug? I have heard
>> of lots of people using pdftk and it would be nice if it was available
>> in Fedora.
> Well, I understand CNI well enough but I can't understand what the problem
> is supposed to be.
I'll try to explain it as I understand it:
- pdftk is compiled by gcj using the C++ ABI, direct to native code
- iText is compiled to bytecode (and GCJ AOT .sos)
- pdftk used to bundle its own copy of iText; this isn't allowed by Fedora
- pdftk needs iText to provide a C++-style .so for linking
OK, so all we need is a version of iText that is suitable for CNI. Is there
any reason not to add a subpackage of iText which provides such a thing?
Apart from the effort of doing it, I mean; I just wonder if there is any
technical reason why not.
Andrew.