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Re: [Question #250969]: Install mupdf plugin for qpdfview

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From: Adam Reichold <question250969@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 18:46:44 -0000
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Question #250969 on qpdfview changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/qpdfview/+question/250969

Adam Reichold posted a new comment:
Hello again,

this is bad, MuPDF needs to be compiled as position independent code
(PIC) so that it can be linked into a dynamically loaded shared object.
Arch patches the MuPDF code for this issue specifically, seems like
Debian doesn't do that (yet). This effectively prevents using MuPDF
within a plug-in for another program, hence without building MuPDF and
qpdfview from source, you can't currently use the plug-in on Debian-
based systems. (Not sure how hard building MuPDF from source is as I've
never tried this on Ubuntu, but you could probably use its Debian source
package as a starting point if you really want to try this.)

Sorry for the bad news. Best regards, Adam.

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