* 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
HTH,
Andrew