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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Tue, 16 May 2006 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > It was easier to copy from BL2 than find the SW4.0 CD
>
> But BL2 is glibc2.  SW4.0 is libc5.
>
> > The latest xpdf contains all statically compiled binaries,
>
> Not the one I am using.
>
> xpdf version 3.01            7607066 bytes
> ------------------------------------------------------
> libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x4001a000)
> libXmu.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6 (0x40028000)
> libXt.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x4003a000)
> libXp.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXp.so.6 (0x40083000)
> libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x4008a000)
> libXpm.so.4 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 (0x40097000)
> libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x400a4000)
> libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x400ae000)
> libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x400c3000)
> libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x4017c000)
> libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4019f000)
> libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x402d2000)
> /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
> -------------------------------------------------------

Where did you get this one?  The 3.0 I downloaded was a 4.5MB package with 
a static xpdf of 2MB size.  3.1 is a 5.6 MB package.  From the foolabs 
site. ftp://ftp.foolabs.com/pub/xpdf-3.01p12-linux.tar.gz ('staticly 
linked to Motif, t1lib, and FreeType').  I have not downloaded this one. 
p12 - patche 12?

2099221 bytes, statically linked (ELF)

> > so why is xpdf having problems in BL3?
>
> Probably because it is dependent on glibc2 (libc.so.6).
>
> > Please check if xpdf works for you in BL3.40.
>
> Yes, the xpdf from Slackware 4.0 works in BL3.
>
> > > Is xli (already in BL3) not good enough?
> >
> > xv does more
>
> What can it do that xli can't?  I saw some reference to
> xv doing postscript (which xli doesn't); however when I
> tried using xv on a postscript file, it did nothing.

xli does not display ppm or png, xv does (but so does zgv).

> > netpbm probably does most of the same things.
>
> Neither netpbm nor xv come with BL3.  xli is part of BL3.
> There's no point installing xv or netpbm unless they are
> superior in some way.

netpbm edits images (rotate, crop, concatenate, etc.), switches between 
formats, and prints directly to an hp or mono epson printer.
It does not display (except via a very basic svga viewer which David did 
not compile).

xv displays and also edits, in graphical mode.  It has a large manual.
I think xli only displays.


xli about 200K, zgv about 500K (plus dependencies), xv about 1MB, netpbm 
is a bunch of smaller files.  I have not been using xli on the laptop 
because it uses up RAM for X.  zgv does not.

> Cheers,
> Steven
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