From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mailsrv.cs.umass.edu (mailsrv.cs.umass.edu [128.119.240.136]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E597F3858D28 for ; Thu, 7 Apr 2022 19:03:43 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.1 sourceware.org E597F3858D28 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=cs.umass.edu Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=cs.umass.edu Received: from [192.168.0.213] (rrcs-50-74-66-18.nyc.biz.rr.com [50.74.66.18]) by mailsrv.cs.umass.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3B9DB4015A6A; Thu, 7 Apr 2022 15:03:43 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: moss@cs.umass.edu Subject: Re: Possible xpdf packaging error? To: airplanemath , cygwin@cygwin.com References: <7189c830-c11f-7320-ffcc-4a45db11fd54@cs.umass.edu> From: Eliot Moss Message-ID: Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2022 15:03:43 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.12.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, KAM_DMARC_STATUS, NICE_REPLY_A, SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS, TXREP, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on server2.sourceware.org X-BeenThere: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: General Cygwin discussions and problem reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2022 19:03:45 -0000 On 4/7/2022 11:13 AM, airplanemath via Cygwin wrote: > On Thu, Apr 07 2022, Eliot Moss wrote: > >> Dear Cygwin-ers -- >> >> Today I had use for pdftotext. It man page is installed, but the program >> itself is missing. On Ubuntu (etc.) it is part of the xpdf package, the >> Cygwin version of which I have installed. pdftotext.cc is in the source >> package, but its executable is not present in the binary package. >> > $ cygcheck -p bin/pdftotext > Found 6 matches for bin/pdftotext > poppler-debuginfo-0.88.0-1 - poppler-debuginfo: Debug info for poppler > poppler-debuginfo-0.88.0-2 - poppler-debuginfo: Debug info for poppler > poppler-debuginfo-21.01.0-1 - poppler-debuginfo: Debug info for poppler > poppler-0.88.0-1 - poppler: PDF manipulation utilities > poppler-0.88.0-2 - poppler: PDF manipulation utilities > poppler-21.01.0-1 - poppler: PDF manipulation utilities > > Try installing poppler > >> So I am wondering if this is intentional (is pdftotext somewhere else?) or an >> oversight. The situation seems the same from at least the 4.01.01 release >> onward to 4.03 (current) release. > > This looks to be intentional, given the mention in the last several > announcements, e.g. > https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-announce/2021-February/009922.html > >> >> I suppose I can try getting all the necessary dependencies and building from >> source, if need be, but though this worth asking about. >> >> Regards - Eliot Moss > > Other ways to check are cygcheck -p pdftotext.exe or > https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=bin%2Fpdftotext&arch=x86_64, Thanks - I had noticed, but not connected, that pdftotext is in poppler-utilsfor Ubuntu. But it's odd to have a man page for something in one package and the executable in another, no? No worries - I'll install poppler. Regards - Eliot