Re: pdflatex failures on big-endian architectures (s390x / ppc64)

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Hello Hilmar,

On Fri, 27 Oct 2023 at 23:41, Hilmar Preu=C3=9Fe <hille42-S0/[email protected]> wrote:

> On 10/27/23 17:47, The Thanh Han wrote:
>
> Hello Thanh,
>
> > I have committed the bugfix to pdftex repo.
> >
> I've copied the patch from [1], applied it to the Debian source package,
> rebuilt the package and copied the pdftex binary to /home.. The patch
> applied cleanly, but the resulting binary did not solve the issue. The
> pdftex can create the pdf file, but after converting to a text file
> using gs / pdftotext the issue is not solved.
>
> I've copied my binary to /var/tmp/pdftex_hille42_20231027 on that box,
> could you test it or provide your pdftex executable? The file was not
> created on that server, but on a Debian box, but this should not matter.
>
>
I tested the binary /var/tmp/pdftex_hille42_20231027 and the pdf output
has the correct CMap entries. But I haven't tested text extraction yet.
There
might be more problems than the one Ross discovered.

I will do some more testing and get back soon.

Regards,
Thanh

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<div dir=3D"ltr"><div>Hello Hilmar,</div><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote"><di=
v dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_attr">On Fri, 27 Oct 2023 at 23:41, Hilmar Pre=
u=C3=9Fe &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:hille42-S0/[email protected]">hille42-S0/[email protected]</a>&gt; wrote=
:<br></div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.=
8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 10/27/23 17=
:47, The Thanh Han wrote:<br>
<br>
Hello Thanh,<br>
<br>
&gt; I have committed the bugfix to pdftex repo.<br>
&gt; <br>
I&#39;ve copied the patch from [1], applied it to the Debian source package=
, <br>
rebuilt the package and copied the pdftex binary to /home.. The patch <br>
applied cleanly, but the resulting binary did not solve the issue. The <br>
pdftex can create the pdf file, but after converting to a text file <br>
using gs / pdftotext the issue is not solved.<br>
<br>
I&#39;ve copied my binary to /var/tmp/pdftex_hille42_20231027 on that box, =
<br>
could you test it or provide your pdftex executable? The file was not <br>
created on that server, but on a Debian box, but this should not matter.<br=
><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I tested the binary /var/tmp/pdftex_h=
ille42_20231027 and the pdf output=C2=A0</div><div>has the correct CMap ent=
ries. But I haven&#39;t tested text extraction yet. There</div><div>might b=
e more problems than the one Ross discovered.</div><div><br></div><div>I wi=
ll do some more testing and get back soon.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards=
,</div><div>Thanh</div></div></div>

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