{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/documentcloud/docsplit/issues/123","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/documentcloud/docsplit/issues/123/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/documentcloud/docsplit/issues/123/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/documentcloud/docsplit/issues/123/events","html_url":"https://github.com/documentcloud/docsplit/issues/123","id":52316206,"number":123,"title":"PDFtk dependency issues with CentOS-7/RHEL-7 | Build Fails | Dependencies libgc Unavailable","user":{"login":"riker1","id":1313949,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1313949?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/riker1","html_url":"https://github.com/riker1","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/riker1/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/riker1/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/riker1/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/riker1/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/riker1/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/riker1/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/riker1/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/riker1/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/riker1/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":10,"created_at":"2014-12-18T01:44:42Z","updated_at":"2015-11-02T17:49:46Z","closed_at":null,"body":"building PDFtk on RHEL 7 currently isn't possible due to upstrean (Fedora) dropping support for libgcj\r\n\r\n\t[ericstyrer2@ceti-alpha-five ~]$#  yum localinstall pdftk-2.02-1.el6.x86_64.rpm\r\n\tError: Package: pdftk-2.02-1.el6.x86_64 (/pdftk-2.02-1.el6.x86_64)\r\n\t\tRequires: libgcj.so.10()(64bit)\r\n\tError: Package: pdftk-2.02-1.el6.x86_64 (/pdftk-2.02-1.el6.x86_64)\r\n\t **Requires: libgcj**\r\n\t You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem\r\n\t You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest\r\n\r\nI'm emailed the autors of PDFtk and they said they're working on it.. \r\n\r\n> Date: August 15, 2014 at 11:54:50 AM EDT\r\n> From: Sid Steward <sid.steward@pdflabs.com>\r\n> To: Eric Tyrer <etyrer@york.cuny.edu>\r\n> Subject: Re: PDF Labs \r\n> \t\r\n> Yes, I've heard that they're dropping support for libgcj. We have been working on a new pdftk that doesn't depend on libgcj, but it is currently pre-beta.\r\n\r\nI wrote that in August of 2014 and now its near 2015.\r\n\r\n[There hasn't been any development on libgcj since 2009](https://gcc.gnu.org/java/index.html), reimplementing that libary most likely would be a heavy lift. I'm guessing that Oracle wouldn't be too friendly either since they hold all the Java patents.\r\n\r\nAlso the licensing for PDFtk's other component, iText, has changed from GPL 2 to GPL 3. This might also affect redistribution?\r\n\r\n[More reading on PDFtk's death (Fedora Discussion List)](https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2014-March/196367.html\r\n)\r\n\r\n[Discussion on CentOS forum on gcc-java and libgcj-devel missing (needed to compile pdftk)](https://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=47420))\r\n \r\nThere’s someone who mentions possibly an alternative PDF toolkit at the [bottom of the thread](http://community.coherentpdf.com/).. \r\n\r\nWhat does the community think?\r\n \r\n\r\n"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/documentcloud/docsplit/issues/comments/153098403","html_url":"https://github.com/documentcloud/docsplit/issues/123#issuecomment-153098403","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/documentcloud/docsplit/issues/123","id":153098403,"user":{"login":"knowtheory","id":192,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/192?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/knowtheory","html_url":"https://github.com/knowtheory","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/knowtheory/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/knowtheory/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/knowtheory/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/knowtheory/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/knowtheory/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/knowtheory/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/knowtheory/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/knowtheory/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/knowtheory/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-11-02T17:49:46Z","updated_at":"2015-11-02T17:49:46Z","body":"just a heads up, we're slowly replacing pdftk's feature set w/ PDFium which we've wrapped up into [PDFShaver](https://github.com/documentcloud/pdfshaver).\r\n\r\nAt the moment tho we're just using PDFium + FreeImage to generate snapshots of pages."}}