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kalsan

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Registered: 2011-10-10

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[solved] Overcome gcc-gcj?

Hi there!
As many of you have certainly felt, every update of pdftk comes with an update of gcc-gcj. Compile time: 45 minutes on a fast computer. So my question is: Is this really necessary? Why is the pdftk binary officially in the Ubuntu repositories but not in any Arch repo (or is there any)? Any way to update pdftk without compiling so long for a package that is uninstalled right afterwards anyway?
Cheers!
Kalsan

Last edited by kalsan (2014-07-25 11:46:27)

kalsan

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Registered: 2011-10-10

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Re: [solved] Overcome gcc-gcj?

I think I found an answer online: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gcc-gcj/ says:

Comment by valandil
2014-07-24 17:23
There exists a repo with a binary version of gcc-gcj, for those who do want to compile the package (see [url]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Unofficial_user_repositories#kps)[/url].
It is out-of-date for the moment, but gcc-4.9.1 only came out yesterday in the Arch official repos, so give it some time.

Last edited by kalsan (2014-07-25 11:46:14)

karol

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Re: [solved] Overcome gcc-gcj?

Packages land in the official repos when there's somebody willing to maintain them.
You can try becoming a TU and maintain it yourself.

Have you tried https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pdftk-bin/ ?
This version depends on libgcj and not gcc-gcj https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/li/libgcj/PKGBUILD

kps unofficial repo provides pdftk 2.02-2 for 64-bit Arch.

Edit: If you want to use [ code ] tags, see https://bbs.archlinux.org/help.php#bbcode

something something

Last edited by karol (2014-07-25 10:18:22)

kalsan

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Registered: 2011-10-10

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Re: [solved] Overcome gcc-gcj?

pdftk-bin is exactly the magic solution I was dreaming of! AWESOME!!! :-)
Thanks a lot!
And thanks for the [ code ] tip.