New port: pdf2json

[pdf2json@…]

We would like to submit the PDF2JON which builds on top of XPDF library to Mac Ports. This library can be used to convert PDF documents to JSON files.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Thanks. Some comments:

• The master_sites should probably just be "googlecode"
• The empty depends_lib and configure.args lines should be removed since they do nothing.

[pdf2json@…]

Hi Ryan, thanks for your reply, so how will you find the builds if I change the master_sites to just read googlecode? In other words how will you find the .tar.gz ?

[larryv (Lawrence Velázquez)]

Replying to pdf2json@…:

Hi Ryan, thanks for your reply, so how will you find the builds if I change the master_sites to just read googlecode? In other words how will you find the .tar.gz ?

"googlecode" is a ​predefined fetch mirror.

[pdf2json@…]

Oh I see! Cool beans. Attaching a new version of the portfile with updated master_sites and distfiles properties

[pdf2json@…]

actually, noticed an error in the home page url. attaching again.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Thanks. I'm still working on fixing a few things before I commit this.

[pdf2json@…]

Ok, let me know if there is anything I can do anything to help

[pdf2json@…]

Any news on adding this macport?

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Sorry for the delay.

Please make sure you test your ports before you submit them; this one failed immediately with:

sh: line 0: cd: .../pdf2json-0.61: No such file or directory"

Committed in r103666 with these further changes:

• Added "extract.mkdir yes" because the tarball does not extract into an enclosing directory.
• Added our standard modeline.
• Removed the line "distfiles pdf2json-0.61.tar.gz" because that's the default.
• Changed the primary category to "textproc" because "pdf" is not a valid primary category.
• The Makefile does not honor the --mandir argument that the configure script advertises, and does not use the value which the configure script says is the default, resulting in:

  Warning: violation by /opt/local/man
  Warning: pdf2json violates the layout of the ports-filesystems!
  Warning: Please fix or indicate this misbehavior (if it is intended), it will be an error in future releases!
  

  Added a patch to fix this, which needs to be committed to the upstream sources. (Possibly similar changes are needed to correctly support --bindir, though that's not important for MacPorts since we're fine with the default.)
• The main Makefile contained some carriage returns which made for difficulties in applying the above patch. Added a post-extract block to remove the carriage returns.
• Added line "conflicts poppler xpdf xpdf-tools" to this port (and indicated that poppler, xpdf and xpdf-tools conflict with pdf2json) because of these problems:

  Error: org.macports.activate for port pdf2json returned: Image error: /opt/local/bin/pdffonts is being used by the active poppler port.  Please deactivate this port first, or use 'port -f activate pdf2json' to force the activation.
  

  Error: org.macports.activate for port pdf2json returned: Image error: /opt/local/bin/pdffonts is being used by the active xpdf-tools port.  Please deactivate this port first, or use 'port -f activate pdf2json' to force the activation.
  

  Error: org.macports.activate for port pdf2json returned: Image error: /opt/local/etc/xpdfrc is being used by the active xpdf port.  Please deactivate this port first, or use 'port -f activate pdf2json' to force the activation.
  

  Ideally ports should not conflict with each other. If this can be fixed, please do (could pdf2json use the existing xpdf and xpdf-tools ports instead of providing its own copy?); otherwise, the "conflicts" line will at least alert users to the problem early.
• Added a patch to remove -I/usr/local/include from Makefiles because we don't want to use any files the user might have installed there.
• Added a patch to add @CXXFLAGS@ and @LDFLAGS@ in src/Makefile.in so that we're building for the right architectures.
• Added a patch to use @CXX@ in src/Makefile.in and splash/Makefile.in so that we're UsingTheRightCompiler.
• Copied a post-patch block from the xpdf portfile to replace /usr/local with ${prefix} in doc/sample-xpdfrc and xpdf/GlobalParams.cc.
• The xpdf port also adds a dependency on the ghostscript port for its fonts. Does pdf2json also use those fonts? If so should we add that same dependency so pdf2json?

[mojca (Mojca Miklavec)]

Update in ​https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/1519