diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 81da3e7..43790e9 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -86,6 +86,9 @@ script:
   - echo "$DOCKER_PASSWORD" | docker login -u "$DOCKER_USERNAME" --password-stdin
   - ./buildScripts/getBuildTools     || travis_terminate 1;
   - ./buildScripts/getDevLibraries   || travis_terminate 1;
+  - ./buildScripts/getPoppler        || travis_terminate 1;
+  - ./buildScripts/buildPoppler      || travis_terminate 1;
+  - ./buildScripts/installPoppler    || travis_terminate 1;
   - ./buildScripts/getFontforge      || travis_terminate 1;
   - ./buildScripts/buildFontforge    || travis_terminate 1;
   - ./buildScripts/installFontforge  || travis_terminate 1;
@@ -95,6 +98,3 @@ script:
   - ./buildScripts/createDockerImage || travis_terminate 1;
   - docker push $DOCKER_USERNAME/pdf2htmlex
 
-#  - ./buildScripts/getPoppler        || travis_terminate 1;
-#  - ./buildScripts/buildPoppler      || travis_terminate 1;
-#  - ./buildScripts/installPoppler    || travis_terminate 1;
diff --git a/buildScripts/buildFontforge b/buildScripts/buildFontforge
index 5b6d78f..40ca338 100755
--- a/buildScripts/buildFontforge
+++ b/buildScripts/buildFontforge
@@ -7,37 +7,27 @@ source buildScripts/versionEnvs
 
 # This is a work-around to fix TravisCI's declaration of PYTHON_CFLAGS
 # which is then honoured exactly as is by the fontforge bootstrap and
-# configure steps
+# configure steps.
+#
+# see: https://github.com/travis-ci/travis-ci/issues/5301 (unfixed)
 #
 if [ -n "$PYTHON_CFLAGS" ] ; then
   export PYTHON_CFLAGS="$(pkg-config --cflags python) $PYTHON_CFLAGS"
 fi
 
 echo ""
+echo "PYTHON_CFLAGS:
 echo "-------------------------------"
-pkg-config --cflags python
-pkg-config --cflags python-2.7
 echo $PYTHON_CFLAGS
-echo $PYTHON_LIBS
 echo "-------------------------------"
 echo ""
 
+# Can use "configure --disable-silent-rules" to debug configuration/make 
+# problems
+#
 cd fontforge
 ./bootstrap
-./configure --disable-silent-rules
-
-echo ""
-echo "-------------------------------"
-cat config.log
-echo "-------------------------------"
-echo ""
-
-echo ""
-echo "-------------------------------"
-cat fontforge/Makefile
-echo "-------------------------------"
-echo ""
-
+./configure
 
 # Apply any patches required for fontforge raw sources before we make
 #
@@ -47,13 +37,5 @@ do
   patch -p 1 < $APATCHFILE
 done
 
-tree /usr/include/python2.7
-
-#cd fontforge
-#make -n
-#cd ..
-
-make
-
-#make $MAKE_PARALLEL
+make $MAKE_PARALLEL
 
diff --git a/buildScripts/fontforgeConfig.site b/buildScripts/fontforgeConfig.site
deleted file mode 100644
index 4c8361b..0000000
--- a/buildScripts/fontforgeConfig.site
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-# This autotools config.site file add the python2.7 include files which are 
-# for some reason missed in the standard fontforge configuration on 
-# travisCI
-
-PYTHON_CFLAGS=$PYTHON_CFLAGS -I/usr/include/python2.7
-
diff --git a/buildScripts/getDevLibraries b/buildScripts/getDevLibraries
index a32a956..6631536 100755
--- a/buildScripts/getDevLibraries
+++ b/buildScripts/getDevLibraries
@@ -16,7 +16,5 @@ sudo apt-get $UNATTENDED install	\
   libpango1.0-dev			\
   liblcms2-dev				\
   libxml2-dev				\
-  libuninameslist-dev
-
-sudo apt-get $UNATTENDED $FORCE_REINSTALL install	\
-  libpython2.7-dev
+  libuninameslist-dev			\
+  libpython-dev
diff --git a/buildScripts/travisEnvs b/buildScripts/travisEnvs
index 3f8da7a..f9e4553 100644
--- a/buildScripts/travisEnvs
+++ b/buildScripts/travisEnvs
@@ -1,3 +1,2 @@
 
 export MAKE_PARALLEL="-j `nproc`"
-export FORCE_REINSTALL=--reinstall