From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from ciao.gmane.io (ciao.gmane.io [116.202.254.214]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 02E69386EC0E for ; Thu, 7 Apr 2022 15:13:54 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.1 sourceware.org 02E69386EC0E Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ncTpY-0000xr-K4 for cygwin@cygwin.com; Thu, 07 Apr 2022 17:13:52 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: airplanemath Subject: Re: Possible xpdf packaging error? Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2022 11:13:46 -0400 Message-ID: References: <7189c830-c11f-7320-ffcc-4a45db11fd54@cs.umass.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (cygwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:gLrh3WCBVC2k3sBNQQDxndz+DBg= X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN, FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, KAM_DMARC_STATUS, KAM_GOODAOL, 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 15:13:55 -0000 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,