print/pdftk: Lonely orphan port needs attention (print/pdftk broken on 7.0 after gettext work (appx))

[Greg Larkin]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-ports at freebsd.org 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-ports at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Howard Goldstein
> 
> pdftk was a handy utility for splitting and combining bits of .pdfs. 
> Given a list of .pdfs it could extract page ranges of input 
> .pdfs and combine them to produce a new .pdf.
> 
> Breakage may have been inevitable since pdftk is so old and 
> unmaintained... It's also i386 only which seems to have 
> scared off potential maintainers, at least that's how it 
> looks perusing gnats.
> 
> I'm not savvy enough to figure out why pdftk is locking up to 
> where only a -9 will kill it.  It's very repeatable (one 
> input file, one output 
> file, immediate lockup).   Through truss it looks like it's 
> waiting for 
> a child to terminate but I'm not savvy enough to trace what 
> happens to forked off processes.
> 
> Would some kind soul take a look at this?  Alternately, are 
> there other ports that support pulling page ranges out of 
> pdfs to generate new pdfs?
> 

Hi Howard,

I couldn't reproduce that problem on my FreeBSD 7.0 installation, but I have
adopted the port and submitted a PR to upgrade it to version 1.41.  If you
have some time, please apply the patch I submitted
(http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?prp=124763-1-txt&n=/pdftk-1.41.patc
h) to your ports tree and upgrade.

If pdftk still locks up on you, please try the following command and forward
the pdftk.log file to me:

truss -f -s 256 -o /tmp/pdftk.log /usr/local/bin/pdftk <your arguments here>

Regards,
Greg Larkin
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