[arch-general] Anyone building pdftk for Archlinux?

[David Rosenstrauch]

On Wed, April 22, 2009 12:06 am, David C. Rankin wrote:
> David Rosenstrauch wrote:
>> David C. Rankin wrote:
>>> Listmates,
>>>
>>>     Looking for my favorite swiss army knife for pdf files (pdftk) I
>>> was unable to
>>> locate it with pacman -Ss pdftk and no luck.
>>
>> It's in the AUR:
>>
>> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?O=0&L=0&C=0&K=pdftk&SeB=nd&PP=25
>>
>> i.e., you have to build it yourself.
>>
>> DR
>>
>
> Great,
>
> 	I'm still reading through the AUR info to see if there are any tricks
> beyond
> the normal:
>
> if ! autoconf; then
> 	./configure --help
> 	(read, make educated guesses)
> 	./configure --your guesses
> 	make
> 	make install
> else
> 	go rtfm again to remember autoconf
> 	./configure --help
> 	(read, make educated guesses)
> 	./configure --your guesses
> 	make
> 	make install
> fi ;-)

???

How about "makepkg".

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ABS#The_build_function.2C_the_ABS_way

DR