Changes applied to the poppler-0.63.0 tree as obtained from: http://poppler.freedesktop.org/ Removed unused dirs: cmake cpp glib qt5 test utils Removed unused files in splash: only SplashTypes.h is used General idea: update version.ac mv poppler-src poppler-prev tar xf poppler-*.tar.gz mv poppler-0.62.0 poppler-src cd poppler-src svn status >/tmp/s svn add # the ? lines svn remove # the ! lines # adapt Makefile.am for new files # adapt configure.ac as needed autoreconf make -C .../Work/libs/poppler/ # until it succeeds # try build of everything, luatex/xetex may need updating.