pdftk: build hangs when running gjc

[matteocorti (Matteo Corti)]

Trying to build pdftk gcj get stuck at the first java file to compile

--->  Computing dependencies for pdftk.
--->  Fetching archive for pdftk
--->  pdftk-2.02_0+gcc47.darwin_15.x86_64.tbz2 doesn't seem to exist in /opt/local/var/macports/incoming/verified
--->  Attempting to fetch pdftk-2.02_0+gcc47.darwin_15.x86_64.tbz2 from http://nue.de.packages.macports.org/macports/packages/pdftk
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
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  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:--  0:00:02 --:--:--     0--->  Attempting to fetch pdftk-2.02_0+gcc47.darwin_15.x86_64.tbz2 from http://mse.uk.packages.macports.org/sites/packages.macports.org/pdftk
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
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100   287  100   287    0     0     47      0  0:00:06  0:00:06 --:--:--    82
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:--  0:00:08 --:--:--     0--->  Attempting to fetch pdftk-2.02_0+gcc47.darwin_15.x86_64.tbz2 from http://lil.fr.packages.macports.org/pdftk
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  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:--  0:00:05 --:--:--     0--->  Fetching distfiles for pdftk
--->  Verifying checksums for pdftk
--->  Checksumming pdftk-2.02-src.zip
--->  Extracting pdftk
--->  Extracting pdftk-2.02-src.zip
--->  Applying patches to pdftk
--->  Applying patch-Makefile.OSX-10.6.diff
patching file pdftk/Makefile.OSX-10.6
Hunk #1 succeeded at 20 (offset -8 lines).
Hunk #2 succeeded at 63 (offset -8 lines).
--->  Patching Makefile.OSX-10.6: s|@PREFIX@|/opt/local|g
--->  Configuring pdftk
--->  Building pdftk
make: Entering directory `/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_textproc_pdftk/pdftk/work/pdftk-2.02-dist/pdftk'
/Applications/Xcode-beta.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make -f Makefile -iC /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_textproc_pdftk/pdftk/work/pdftk-2.02-dist/pdftk/../java all
make[1]: Entering directory `/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_textproc_pdftk/pdftk/work/pdftk-2.02-dist/java'
/opt/local/bin/gcj-mp-4.7 -Wall -fsource=1.3 -O2 --encoding=UTF-8 --classpath="/opt/local/share/java/libgcj-4.7.4.jar:/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_textproc_pdftk/pdftk/work/pdftk-2.02-dist/java:." -C pdftk/com/lowagie/text/Anchor.java

gcj-mp is then stuck ...

[matteocorti (Matteo Corti)]

Adding -v to the gcj-mp command

/opt/local/bin/gcj-mp-4.7 -v -Wall -fsource=1.3 -O2 --encoding=UTF-8 --classpath="/opt/local/share/java/libgcj-4.7.4.jar:/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_textproc_pdftk/pdftk/work/pdftk-2.02-dist/java:." -C pdftk/com/lowagie/text/Anchor.java
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=/opt/local/bin/gcj-mp-4.7
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin15
Configured with: /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_lang_gcc47/gcc47/work/gcc-4.7.4/configure --prefix=/opt/local --build=x86_64-apple-darwin15 --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,obj-c++,lto,fortran,java --libdir=/opt/local/lib/gcc47 --includedir=/opt/local/include/gcc47 --infodir=/opt/local/share/info --mandir=/opt/local/share/man --datarootdir=/opt/local/share/gcc-4.7 --with-libiconv-prefix=/opt/local --with-local-prefix=/opt/local --with-system-zlib --disable-nls --program-suffix=-mp-4.7 --with-gxx-include-dir=/opt/local/include/gcc47/c++/ --with-gmp=/opt/local --with-mpfr=/opt/local --with-mpc=/opt/local --with-ppl=/opt/local --with-cloog=/opt/local --enable-cloog-backend=isl --disable-cloog-version-check --enable-stage1-checking --disable-multilib --enable-lto --enable-libstdcxx-time --with-as=/opt/local/bin/as --with-ld=/opt/local/bin/ld --with-ar=/opt/local/bin/ar --with-bugurl=https://trac.macports.org/newticket --disable-ppl-version-check --with-pkgversion='MacPorts gcc47 4.7.4_5'
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.7.4 (MacPorts gcc47 4.7.4_5) 
COLLECT_GCC_OPTIONS='-fsaw-java-file' '-mmacosx-version-min=10.11.0' '-v' '-Wall' '-fsource=1.3' '-O2' '-fencoding=UTF-8' '-C' '-fbootclasspath=/opt/local/share/java/libgcj-4.7.4.jar:/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_textproc_pdftk/pdftk/work/pdftk-2.02-dist/java/:./:/opt/local/share/gcc-4.7/java/libgcj-4.7.4.jar' '-fsyntax-only' '-femit-class-files' '-S' '-o' 'NONE' '-shared-libgcc' '-mtune=core2'
 /opt/local/libexec/gcc/x86_64-apple-darwin15/4.7.4/ecj1 pdftk/com/lowagie/text/Anchor.java -Wall -fbootclasspath=/opt/local/share/java/libgcj-4.7.4.jar:/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_textproc_pdftk/pdftk/work/pdftk-2.02-dist/java/:./:/opt/local/share/gcc-4.7/java/libgcj-4.7.4.jar -fencoding=UTF-8 -fsource=1.3 -ftarget=1.5 -fzip-dependency /var/folders/sq/sb7jrfk14qv7yyh9z55mszp40000gn/T//ccCU2P1X.zip

[Ionic (Mihai Moldovan)]

Next time, please remember to CC the maintainer(s), if any.

In this special case, I'm also CC'ing the gcc47 port maintainer, as it might be helpful.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

How fast is your computer? How fast is your disk? How long did you wait? pdftk can take a long time to build.

I see you're on OS X 10.11 beta. I haven't tried building pdftk there yet, but I'll try it now.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

I agree, nothing happens when trying to build pdftk. gcj gets called a single time, and then sits there. That seems like a problem with the gcc47 port.

gcc45 and gcc47 are the only ones with java support at this time. What I can try to do is add java support to a newer version of gcc, then see if pdftk can be built with that.

[matteocorti (Matteo Corti)]

Replying to ryandesign@…:

I agree, nothing happens when trying to build pdftk. gcj gets called a single time, and then sits there. That seems like a problem with the gcc47 port.

gcc45 and gcc47 are the only ones with java support at this time. What I can try to do is add java support to a newer version of gcc, then see if pdftk can be built with that.

Just about the El Capitan beta. I had the problem also with Yosemite (I'll try to get a Yosemite machine to confirm)

[matteocorti (Matteo Corti)]

I was finally able to check on Yosemite: I was able to build pdftk successfully.

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[aadams99@…]

I'm not sure if this is the right spot for this. I have a SO question on this as well. I'm trying here because I can't find any answers online.

I've been using PDFTK Server on OSX pre 10.11 for over a year without any issues running commands on the command line.

After installing OSX 10.11 beta, I can no longer run any PDFTK Server commands on the command line. It does not throw any error, all the commands I try to execute just hang indefinitely.

I installed from a pkg I downloaded from the PDFTK Server website as always:

​https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-server/

I've sent in the complaint to Apple via their Feedback Assistant application that gets installed when installing the beta two months ago without a response.

I've searched the web for a clue as to what might be causing the issue and how to fix it, but have found nothing tangible.

On OSX, I don't know how to go about figuring out if there is now a permission or path or even a Java issue after the upgrade.

Any help either trouble shooting the root cause or offering a fix is appreciated.

[mdeaudelin (Mathieu Deaudelin-Lemay)]

aadams99@…: This ticket is for problems building pdftk. Since you are not using MacPorts to compile pdftk, but are rather using prebuilt binaries, this is a different issue. I have replied to the rest of your comment where it was originally posted, in #48818.

[howarth.at.macports@…]

This is due to the recompilation of libunwind in 10.11 using Apple Clang 7 producing new valid optimizations (according to Apple) that tickle an unknown bug in FSF boehm-gc.

​https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=66848

Don't expect any fixes from Apple as they can't touch the GPLv3 code to look at the FSF boehm-gc problem (unless they used the gcc43 package which should still be GPLv2). That this issue is triggered by the recompilation of libunwind is demonstrated by that fact that substituting the libunwind.dylib from 10.10 eliminates both the boehm-gc and gcj failures.

Note that is was filed as radr://21372179, "the FSF boehm-gc library built on 10.10 fails to pass its tests on 10.11" but closed as being an FSF boehm-gc bug.

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Portfile diff to use proposed gcc5 update that fixes gcj

[howarth.at.macports@…]

The attached Portfile.diff (when used with the proposed gcc5 update on #49227 which fixes gcj) solves the build issue with pdftk.

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[graziosi.angelo@…]

Following the discussion about ticket #49227, it seems improbable to have pdftk in MacPorts, but a new .pkg installer has been created (​http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32505951/pdftk-server-on-os-x-10-11) which seems to work, and it applies the #49227 patches!

Meanwhile, there is the tool cpdf (​http://community.coherentpdf.com/ ) which could substitute pdftk. I wonder if it can be added to MacPorts.

Angelo

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Replying to graziosi.angelo@…:

Meanwhile, there is the tool cpdf (​http://community.coherentpdf.com/ ) which could substitute pdftk. I wonder if it can be added to MacPorts.

Please file a new ticket if you would like to request a new port.

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[pmetzger (Perry E. Metzger)]

Question: why is the Portfile.diff mentioned in comment:17 above insufficient to fix this?

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Because it requires changes in gcc5 which I explained in comment:ticket:49227:18 I don't feel competent to evaluate and incorporate. I would want the developers of gcc to confirm that that is the correct fix, and for them to incorporate it into their sources first.

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[leo@…]

Replying to matteo@…:

I'm on Yosemite so not sure if my issue is this bug in another guise or something different. I'm trying to do a macports install on 10.10.5. My installed Xcode is 7.2.1. The build fails. port output starts as below. Any advice on workarounds, or if this is some other known issue, or if I should submit a new bug report, gratefully received.

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--->  Extracting pdftk-2.02-src.zip
--->  Applying patches to pdftk
--->  Applying patch-Makefile.OSX-10.6.diff
patching file pdftk/Makefile.OSX-10.6
Hunk #1 succeeded at 20 (offset -8 lines).
Hunk #2 succeeded at 63 (offset -8 lines).
--->  Patching Makefile.OSX-10.6: s|@PREFIX@|/opt/local|g
--->  Configuring pdftk
--->  Building pdftk
make: Entering directory `/opt/local/var/macports/build/_Users_seb_nix_macports_textproc_pdftk/pdftk/work/pdftk-2.02-dist/pdftk'
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make -f Makefile -iC /opt/local/var/macports/build/_Users_seb_nix_macports_textproc_pdftk/pdftk/work/pdftk-2.02-dist/pdftk/../java all
make[1]: Entering directory `/opt/local/var/macports/build/_Users_seb_nix_macports_textproc_pdftk/pdftk/work/pdftk-2.02-dist/java'
/opt/local/bin/gcj-mp-5 -Wall -fsource=1.3 -O2 --encoding=UTF-8 --classpath="/opt/local/share/java/libgcj-5.3.0.jar:/opt/local/var/macports/build/_Users_seb_nix_macports_textproc_pdftk/pdftk/work/pdftk-2.02-dist/java:." -C pdftk/com/lowagie/text/Anchor.java
gcj-mp-5: error trying to exec 'ecj1': execvp: No such file or directory
make[1]: [pdftk/com/lowagie/text/Anchor.class] Error 1 (ignored)

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Replying to leo@…:

I'm on Yosemite so not sure if my issue is this bug in another guise or something different. I'm trying to do a macports install on 10.10.5. My installed Xcode is 7.2.1. The build fails. port output starts as below. Any advice on workarounds, or if this is some other known issue, or if I should submit a new bug report, gratefully received.

Your transcript shows a failure when using gjc-mp-5, which is from the gcc5 port. As shipped from MacPorts, the pdftk port does not attempt to use gcc5, so you are using a modified version of the port. Perhaps you patched it using the patch attached earlier in this ticket. What happens if you undo that change and try to install the port as we have provided it? In any case, the problem discussed in this ticket is unique to El Capitan (and presumably later), because of a change Apple made in El Capitan; if you are having a problem building pdftk on an earlier version of OS X, it is a different problem and you should file a new ticket.

[leo@…]

Replying to ryandesign@…:

Your transcript shows a failure when using gjc-mp-5, which is from the gcc5 port. As shipped from MacPorts, the pdftk port does not attempt to use gcc5, so you are using a modified version of the port. Perhaps you patched it using the patch attached earlier in this ticket. What happens if you undo that change and try to install the port as we have provided it?

Ah, how right you are. I was trying to build a development version of auto-multiple-choice following instructions found here ​http://project.auto-multiple-choice.net/projects/auto-multiple-choice/wiki/Building_AMC_for_MAC_OSX and I didn't appreciate that it was using a non-standard pdftk port. It looks like those instructions may only work on 10.11 in fact. Thank you.

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Any news on pdftk for El Capitan?

Error: pdftk currently does not build on OS X 10.11 or greater.
Error: See https://trac.macports.org/ticket/48528

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[Russell-Jones-OxPhys (Russell Jones)]

Shame openjdk doesn't have a portfile, as then MacPorts could switch to alternatives such as ​https://github.com/m-click/mcpdf IDK how hard it would be to do. There's an openjdk7 Portfile at browser:users/landonf/openjdk7/dports/java/openjdk7/Portfile​ from 2013, but I guess it's stopped working and been dropped or was never finished.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

We had an openjdk6 port but it was removed in r105197; see #28218. I don't know if Landon ever got openjdk7 working on the Mac but it sounded like a lot of the difficulties in getting openjdk6 working had already been fixed in openjdk7.

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It looks like openjdk7 and 8 are not clang-friendly, but 9 is intended to be per ​https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/Build/Supported+Build+Platforms -- at least it is being tested on Xcode 6.3 + 10.10 by Oracle. It won't be ready until March 2017 according to ​http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk9/ I guess openjdk9-devel may be a useful thing in the meantime. openjdk8 lists gcc 4.2.1 / Xcode 4.6.2 on 10.7 as the main tested platform (I mention all this in part because I had to pull the page from Google's cache).

This page ​https://github.com/manasthakur/tech/wiki/Building-OpenJDK-8-on-Mac-OS-X-Yosemite claims openjdk8 won't build with clang.

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[jenstroeger (Jens Troeger)]

Any updates? I just wanted to install pdftk (taking the gcc4.7 variant with dismay, no current 5.x or 6.x variants?!) and got this:

--->  Fetching archive for pdftk
--->  Attempting to fetch pdftk-2.02_0+gcc47.darwin_15.x86_64.tbz2 from http://nou.nc.packages.macports.org/pub/macports/packages.macports.org/pdftk
--->  Attempting to fetch pdftk-2.02_0+gcc47.darwin_15.x86_64.tbz2 from http://jog.id.packages.macports.org/macports/packages/pdftk
--->  Attempting to fetch pdftk-2.02_0+gcc47.darwin_15.x86_64.tbz2 from http://kmq.jp.packages.macports.org/pdftk
--->  Fetching distfiles for pdftk
Error: pdftk currently does not build on OS X 10.11 or greater.
Error: See https://trac.macports.org/ticket/48528
Error: Failed to fetch pdftk: incompatible OS X version
Error: See /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_textproc_pdftk/pdftk/main.log for details.
Error: Follow https://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets to report a bug.
Error: Processing of port pdftk failed

[nortcele]

Modified gcc5 and pdftk ports to be used as local ports.

[nortcele]

If you are comfortable using local ports, you can use the macports-local.zip file to install pdftk. In this archive there are ports for gcc5 and pdftk for 10.11 and 10.12. It could take a long time as gcc5 need to be compiled.

[jenstroeger (Jens Troeger)]

Replying to nortcele:

If you are comfortable using local ports, you can use the macports-local.zip file to install pdftk. In this archive there are ports for gcc5 and pdftk for 10.11 and 10.12. It could take a long time as gcc5 need to be compiled.

Thank you! For those new to local portfiles: ​https://guide.macports.org/chunked/development.local-repositories.html

[nortcele]

Here is attachment:gcc5.5.0.patch​ a patch to use gcc5.5.0 modification proposed at ticket #49227.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

No need to increase the revision, unless something will change for users who had already installed the port. All users who already installed the port will have one of the gcc4x variants selected, so they will see no change.

[nortcele]

Patch to use if proposition to add ecj to gcc5.5.0 is accepted

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

In 6a8d7fa937bda2f21d7d1c08228700c4781e1aa9/macports-ports:

pdftk: Add gcc5 variant and make it the default

This allows the port to build on El Capitan and newer for the first
time.

Closes: #40058
Closes: #48528