[oe] [PATCH 0/2] poppler nightmare

[Andreas Müller]

On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 6:51 AM, Bill Randle <bill.randle at gmail.com> wrote:
> I recently tried to cross build the current version of poppler for an
> embedded ARM system. This was not under the Yocto/OE build
> environment, but I never could get quite the right cmake config file
> to get the thing to build. Since I just needed it for the pdftoraster
> cups filter, I punted and built ghostscript instead. cmake may be fine
> for native builds, but at least in this case, it was a pain to use for
> cross-compilation.
>
>     -Bill
>
Currently I see two issues:

1. Resetting al compiler flags was never a good idea for cross
compiling. I've sent dozens of patches like this to many projects but
at poppler I had to learn my marketing/skills/patience were not good
enough [1]
2. on some environments (I can build 0.63.0 perfectly fine - but...)
linking poppler-glib does not find libpoppler.

Maybe some CMake experts around willing to help out?

[1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105852

Regards

Andreas