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Page of bug triaging projects
by Bryce Harrington 27 Nov '07

27 Nov '07

Hi all, Looking at the 1913 bugs in launchpad, it seems pretty overwhelming... But it can be attacked with smaller scoped projects. I've created a list here: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/BugTriageProjects Each of these tasks should be manageable by one person over the course of a week or so, maybe less. None of them require any particular technical skill. They're all pretty important to do to get our bug tracker organized. By the way, Launchpad also has a handy email interface, and a lot of bulk work can be done by writing scripts that invoke changes through email. This is handy for bulk tagging bugs, updating status, or requesting re-testing bugs for example. Details here: https://help.launchpad.net/BugTrackerEmailInterface Bryce

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Launchpad Tips & Tricks: Triaging
by Bryce Harrington 27 Nov '07

27 Nov '07

Triaging is the initial bug review process, that anyone with a bit of patience can help with. A good technique for triaging is to use the advanced search page (https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bugs?advanced=1). Search for 'New'+'Undecided' bugs, and/or some search term you care about (say, "layers dialog"). Looking at a specific bug, look over to the far right for a downward pointed arrow. Clicking this expands the bug settings panel. The Status and Importance fields are the main ones to deal with. The goal of triaging is to get the bug out of 'New'. Review the bug and see if it has enough information to troubleshoot; if not, move it to state 'Incomplete'. If it does have enough, set it to 'Confirmed'. If the bug is really a feature request, set Status to Confirmed, and Importance to Wishlist. If the bug is out of date or otherwise invalid, mark it Invalid. Bryce

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Launchpad Tips & Tricks: Tags
by Bryce Harrington 27 Nov '07

27 Nov '07

On the left side of https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/ you'll see an unobtrusive grey bar labeled 'Tags'. Click on it and you'll see a list of Inkscape-specific tags. Click on a tab and it brings up the corresponding list of bugs. Tags are a flexible mechanism for organizing bugs, sort of like with SF where we could put a bug in a category, except in LP a bug can be assigned any number of tags. Also, in SF only admins could add new categories; with LP, bug triagers can define new tags too. Click on one of the tagged bugs. You'll see the tags listed right after the Bug description. On the top left, click on 'Edit description/tags'. Under the fields for updating the summary and description is the Tags box. This is a simple space-delimited list of tags. Defining a new tag is as trivial as writing a new term into this box. It's a good idea to try to use existing tags where possible; too many tags may become unmanageable. Here's some different ideas that tags could be used for: * Identifying the platforms the bug occurs on (e.g. 'osx', 'windows-vista', 'ubuntu-linux') * Hook into more elaborate workflows (e.g. 'needs-testing', 'needs-performance-measurement', 'add-to-release-notes') * Marking bugs that are all dependent on a particular feature (e.g. 'needs-animation', 'needs-multipage') * Marking bugs that need processing by automated scripts (e.g. 'needs-all-retrace', 'render-svg-attachments') Bryce

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Launchpad Groups
by Ted Gould 27 Nov '07

27 Nov '07

Hello, With the bugs now I Launchpad I made two "teams" -- groups really. They are: inkscape.admin http://launchpad.net/~inkscape.admin inkscape.bugs http://launchpad.net/~inkscape.bugs Basically the first one can edit the Inkscape project and the second is set up for the bug tracker. I don't believe that you need to be in inkscape.bugs to work with bugs, but I do believe it'll give you more ability to work with bugs. Anyway, if you think you should be in those groups apply to them and I'll add you. --Ted PS - If you're in inkscape.admin that automatically puts you in inkscape.bugs

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Status report
by Maximilian Albert 27 Nov '07

27 Nov '07

Hi all, just to keep you informed, and because some people are probably waiting for status updates from me (I hope this is not the reason why Bryce hasn't announced Chill yet) - I'm now almost finished with the transition of the 3D box tool from the old to the new internal representation. I'm planning to merge the changes into trunk sometime this week and continue working there. I'm also going to write up a description of what these changes comprise (and why they were necessary/what they will be useful for), what's still missing and what is on my TODO list for further work on the tool. Well, going to sleep now so as to be fresh for work tomorrow (although it's probably already too late for that). :) Max

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Launchpad migration complete (was Re: Inkscape demo import)
by Bryce Harrington 27 Nov '07

27 Nov '07

On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 02:57:34PM +0900, James Henstridge wrote: > The import was performed with a fresh screen scrape of the SF.net > tracker, so it should be fairly complete. It would be good to hide > the SF.net tracker now to prevent people from filing new bugs in the > wrong place. This has been done. We're in the middle of transitioning the website to a new VM, but we'll get the links and such updated after that. Bryce

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DOM for scripting?
by Terry Hancock 26 Nov '07

26 Nov '07

Hi all, About a year ago, I posted regarding a Python graphical scripting tool I was working on. I got sort of hung in the middle, because I started with Skencil, then started looking at Inkscape. Inkscape was simpler in one respect because the SVG representation is easier to manipulate, but it's harder to integrate the plugin because I couldn't (easily) *use* Inkscape from the script. For example, it would be nice to be able to select and skew an object using Inkscape's selection and transformation tool rather than having to compute and apply the transformation at the point level within my program, but that would require a way to call that tool from the Python script. In Skencil, by contrast, this is relatively simple to do, because the Skencil API is completely accessible to scripts and plugins. The downside is that Skencil uses an internal Python object model for the drawing which is not easily serializable. Thus, for example, it is very awkward to keep a library of drawing components available for my program to manipulate. When I brought this up on inkscape-user, I was told that a DOM API would (at sometime) be made available which would solve this problem (although now that I think about it, "document" doesn't really fit, though "object model" does -- this may've been a miscommunication?) I have recently seen "DOM" mentioned in the inkscape-devel archives, but that seems to be a different concept -- the idea of a DOM to describe the SVG file being manipulated, not the Inkscape application doing the manipulation. I didn't have a pressing enough need for the tool I was writing to plow through this obstacle, so I wound up setting it aside, thinking that it might prove easier later anyway. So I'd just like to ask if functionality like this already exists in Inkscape, is on an existing roadmap, or if this is something I ought to place as a feature request? Cheers, Terry -- Terry Hancock (hancock@...1838...) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.AnansiSpaceworks.com

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Inkscape Contract Programming
by Michael Yinger 26 Nov '07

26 Nov '07

First, I apologize in advance if this is the wrong forum for this kind of question. I've been getting up to speed on Inkscape and Scribus. I'd like to get up to speed much faster and would be happy to pay someone to help me do that. If you are interested please email me at myinger@...1835... -- Mike Yinger

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Inkscape crash under FreeBSD
by Zlog Vladimir 26 Nov '07

26 Nov '07

# Inkscape is crashing when I want to change the color for the background of the first page. ################ HOW TO REPRODUCE ################ - run inkscape - go to File -> Document Properties - at first tab(Page) in General go to choose a new color for the background; - at Background Color Window in Wheel tab write/paste a value for RGBA textfield. - then try to change the alpha opacity and you will get the following message: "Inkscape encountered an internal error and will close now." ################ Uname -a ################ FreeBSD dexter.lab.net 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #1: Wed Nov 14 21:06:54 EET 2007 root@...1836...:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DEXTER i386 ################ gdb message ################ ... ... ... symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...[New Thread 0x29b01100 (LWP 100048)] (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... #######-----> Important message Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted. [Switching to Thread 0x29b01100 (LWP 100048)] 0x2978cb17 in kill () from /lib/libc.so.7 I will attach two snapshot's of the screen and if you will need i will attach at your request inkscape.core because these one has 55mb. Thank you. Regards Zlog Vladimir

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Broken linux build
by Denis Leroy 26 Nov '07

26 Nov '07

/src> svn diff selection-chemistry.cpp Index: selection-chemistry.cpp =================================================================== --- selection-chemistry.cpp (revision 16550) +++ selection-chemistry.cpp (working copy) @@ -82,9 +82,10 @@ #include "selection-chemistry.h" -//# +#ifdef WIN32 #include <windows.h> -//# +#endif +

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XICC support
by Jon A. Cruz 24 Nov '07

24 Nov '07

I finished getting base XICC support in. It works for me with two monitors, including changing dynamically as profiles are attached or removed or as windows are moved across displays. Give things a run through and see how it goes.

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Width control in Bend Path LPE
by unknown＠example.com 23 Nov '07

23 Nov '07

Hi all, Before I leave on a trip for a couple of days, I decided to add width control to bend path. See the picture showing bits of two screenshots. One editing the bend path as usual, and one editing the width of the path. Already works quite nicely! This is sort of a test to see how the UI should be for "1D" path parameters (path parameters for which e.g. only the y value matters, like functions: y = f(t) ) For those not convinced of 2geom power: I did this within half an hour....... (so probably many bugs here!) Happy bending! Johan

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PixbufError
by unknown＠example.com 23 Nov '07

23 Nov '07

Hi all, Who, on Linux, can reproduce this bug? http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1679218&group_i d=93438&atid=604306 And who can't :-) 1. touch test.jpg 2. open inkscape and browse to test.jpg in the open file dialog. Either you should see: ** Message: Gdk::PixbufError in SVGPreview::showImage which is good. Or you see something different, which is what I am seeing and is not good. Trying to track down this weird strange bug, Johan

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Debugging Inkscape on windows
by unknown＠example.com 23 Nov '07

23 Nov '07

I have just written an account of how I fixed a bug: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/DebuggingTips#Example_of_how_to_ fix_a_bug I hope you can get some tips from that page that help tackle bugs faster. Moreover, if you have any, add your tips aswell! Cheers, Johan

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compatibility with azerty keyboard
by Tomas Fiers 23 Nov '07

23 Nov '07

Hi all, The keyboard shortcut for rotating an object are '[' and ']'. I'm using an azerty-keyboard (I live in Belgium) but somehow 'alt+[ or ]' doesn't work. I've been searching to change the key bindings for this, but I didn't find any reference to it. I hope someone over here knows a solution. Greets, Tomas P.S. This is a resend, I sent my previous without a subject.

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Weird issue saving in PDF
by Jaime Martínez-Figueroa 23 Nov '07

23 Nov '07

Hi I'm using both Inkscape 0.45.1.1 and a snap from this monday in Win32 (but with older snaps was the same). There is a huge difference when saving in PDF files, other users reported an issue with the size of the files but the biggest difference is the quality, with 0.45.1.1 the PDF file is vectorial (~18kb) and with the snap it's a bitmap (~315kb)! BTW, the source SVG was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:YamahaMotorCo.svg Please note that I tried replacing the new libcairo2.dll with the older file and the result was the same. Best regards -- Jaime F. Martínez Figueroa Electronics and Computer Science in the way [P!]Wack in the net, visit http://alumnos.elo.utfsm.cl/~jmartinez/ meatPixel at http://meatpixel.net

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(no subject)
by Tomas Fiers 22 Nov '07

22 Nov '07

Hi all, The keyboard shortcut for rotating an object are '[' and ']'. I'm using an azerty-keyboard (I live in Belgium) but somehow 'alt+[ or ]' doesn't work. I've been searching to change the key bindings for this, but i didn't find any reference to it. I hope someone over here knows a solution. Greets, Tomas

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] bold some words issue in OSX
by jiho 22 Nov '07

22 Nov '07

For devel list: the discussion was about the bug which prevents some fonts to display their bold variants on OS X. On 2007-November-22 , at 18:48 , iuri kothe wrote: > Could this (bold/font issue) be addressed as a Bug for Pango (or > Inkscape)? > Or has it already been addressed? The bug is already filled for Inkscape. Don't know about Pango but since it is quite old I hope it went back to them. Gail worked a lot with Pango stuff for the summer of code. Gail do you know if they are aware of this issue and what is needed to solve it? Inkscape bug tracker will be moved to Launchpad soon. Once it's done, Launchpad will allow us to link our bugs to those of other projects, including Pango probably. Such issues will therefore be much easier to forward upstream if it's not already done. JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] win23 build broken: poppler link problem
by unknown＠example.com 22 Nov '07

22 Nov '07

Thanks Miklos, this worked. I have changed build.xml to *not* define HAVE_POPPLER_CAIRO in config.h. Cheers, Johan > -----Original Message----- > From: Miklós Erdélyi [mailto:erdelyim@...400...] > Sent: dinsdag 20 november 2007 18:47 > To: Engelen, J.B.C. (Johan) > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] win23 build broken: poppler link problem > > Check config.h whether HAVE_POPPLER_CAIRO is enabled. If it > is, you need to link against libpoppler-glib (I don't know > how it could be achieved under winxp, under linux it's a > LD_FLAG -lpoppler-glib). So if you don't have poppler-glib, > or cannot link to it, undef HAVE_POPPLER_CAIRO in config.h. > Then you won't have preview in the PDF import dialog box > (only embedded thumbnails), but you'll able to build inkscape. > Hope this helped a bit. > Best regards, > miklos > > On Nov 20, 2007 6:18 PM, <J.B.C.Engelen@...1578...> wrote: > > I tried with SVN's build.xml (only change I had was > -mconsole I think, > > so just to be sure) and it still does not work :-( > > > > -johan > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: inkscape-devel-bounces(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > > [mailto:inkscape-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net] On > Behalf Of > > > Bob Jamison > > > Sent: dinsdag 20 november 2007 6:29 > > > To: inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] win23 build broken: poppler link > > > problem > > > > > > Your problem is possibly the build.xml file. It changed > recently, > > > so maybe if you have a locally edited copy of it, and it hasn't > > > merged with the tree yet, some includes or libs can be > missing from > > > the compile or link. > > > > > > > > > bob > > > > > > > > > Diederik van Lierop wrote: > > > > First time ever that I tried to compile on XP, to solve a > > > windows-only > > > > bug, but I just ran into the same error... > > > > > > > > Diederik > > > > > > > > J.B.C.Engelen@...1578... wrote: > > > > > > > >> Hi all, > > > >> > > > >> I am trying to clean build 16528 but I get the following > > > linker error: > > > >> > > > >> Make error line 373: LINK problem: > > > >> build\libinkscape.a(pdf-input.o):pdf-input.cpp:(.text+0x2c8): > > > >> undefined reference to `poppler_document_get_page' > > > >> build\libinkscape.a(pdf-input.o):pdf-input.cpp:(.text+0x2d6): > > > >> undefined reference to `poppler_page_render' > > > >> build\libinkscape.a(pdf-input.o):pdf-input.cpp:(.text+0x2ba8): > > > >> undefined reference to `poppler_document_new_from_file' > > > >> build\libinkscape.a(pdf-input.o):pdf-input.cpp:(.text+0x4f7b): > > > >> undefined reference to `poppler_document_new_from_file' > > > >> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > > > >> > > > >> I am using the latest devpackage from modevia.com: > > > >> http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32libs/devlibs-2.12-071115.7z > > > >> > > > >> -Johan > > > >> > > > >> > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > - > > > >> ---- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all > > > >> challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. > > > >> http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > > > >> _______________________________________________ > > > >> Inkscape-devel mailing list > > > >> Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > > >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- > > > > --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all > > > challenges. > > > > Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. > > > > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Inkscape-devel mailing list > > > > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > > ----------- > > > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. > > > Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. > > > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Inkscape-devel mailing list > > > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all > challenges. > > Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. > > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > > _______________________________________________ > > Inkscape-devel mailing list > > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel > > >

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape demo import
by Bryce Harrington 22 Nov '07

22 Nov '07

On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 11:42:29AM +0900, James Henstridge wrote: > > > Assuming this import looks okay, what sort of time frame do you want > > > for the migration? > > > > We're now ready to go forward at your convenience. > > Okay. How does Tuesday morning my time sound? I am in UTC+9, so I > guess you'd still be Monday afternoon for you then. The rollout should > be over long before then, and I can check to see if there are any > problems that'd prevent the migration on Monday. Sure, that sounds great. > > Because of this, I think the best approach would be for you to give me > > an indication of roughly when you'll be able to start the migration. I > > will then plan on hiding all of SourceForge's trackers for Inkscape and > > then email you a go-ahead. You can then run the screen scrapers and > > then bring up the new bug tracking at Launchpad. > > > > Meanwhile, we can let our users know of the downtime, and work on > > repointing our website bug tracker links to Launchpad. Hopefully then > > we'll be good to go! > > Okay. Hopefully hiding the tracker doesn't prevent screen scraping it. Hrm... I bet it would prevent the screen scraping. Okay, looking at it again, I could go through and delete each account from being able to post to the tracker, including anonymous people. This is a bit more cumbersome but would leave the tracker visible for screen scraping. I'll plan on doing this then. Bryce

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Blur spinner digits
by Guillaume Pothier 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

Hi, I've just checked out the SVN trunk to play with the new "huge bitmap export" feature, which is really cool! So, I have a rather large page (70x150cm) which I'm exporting at 100dpi. There is an image in my drawing, which is relatively low resolution compared to what I am exporting, so I want to blur it a bit so that it doesn't appear so pixellized in the output. The issue is that the blur control in the Fill & stroke dialog doesn't let me enter very low blur values. Or to be more precise, I can enter a small value like 0.03, the drawing is repainted with the exact level of blurring I want, but then when I do anything else the blur value goes back to 0. This is because the precision of the blur's spin is set to 1 digit (filter-effect-chooser.cpp:28). I changed it to 2 digits, and it now lets me enter a low blur value. Is it a good idea? Should I submit a patch? g

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] NEW: Live Path Effects
by unknown＠example.com 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

I just renamed the Path along Path LPE to Bend Path. I also changed this name in the Inkscape SVG representation. This means that your old files that used this effect no longer work. Reapplying the effect will not work as it will reinitialize some things. What you should do is go to the effect in the XML editor (in the defs section) and reset the effect attribute from 'path_along_path' to 'bend_path'. Sorry for the inconvenience :/ (note that the LPE still change a bit because of bug fixes. e.g. recently translation of things was changed, so your paths would be in the wrong place) - Johan > -----Original Message----- > From: bulia byak [mailto:buliabyak@...400...] > Sent: woensdag 21 november 2007 22:38 > To: Inkscape User Community; Engelen, J.B.C. (Johan) > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] NEW: Live Path Effects > > On Nov 21, 2007 5:25 PM, <J.B.C.Engelen@...1578...> wrote: > > About the naming: perhaps I can at least settle on renaming 'path > > along path' to 'bend'. (the two names are so similar at the moment > > that even I misread things often...) > > Me too :) > > And please rename "stitch subcurves" - we don't have > subcurves in Inkscape, we have subpaths. > > -- > bulia byak > Inkscape. Draw Freely. > http://www.inkscape.org >

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lib2geom status
by Ted Gould 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

Hey, Now that we're including a large part of lib2geom for LPE anyway; what else can we use it for? I'm unsure of the status of the whole library. One feature that I hear alot about when talking to people is the inset/outset function in Inkscape being "less than perfect." I think this was on the TODO for lib2geom, is it done? Thanks, Ted

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Names of LPEs
by unknown＠example.com 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

Hi all, Because people are starting to use LPE and perhaps make tutorials? ;) I'd like to settle on the names for these two effects: They are now called: Path along path and Pattern along path in SVN. I think I'll keep one named Pattern along path (in svg now it is called "skeletal"); this one mimics the extension. The original path is some curved path. And it has a path *parameter* that is taken as a pattern and bent along the original path. The other one, I am thinking about "Bend path". The original path is the fish. And it has a path parameter that defines the curvature / the path along which to bend the fish, i.e. the now called 'bend path' parameter. Picking a sensible name is important for inkscape's svg. The UI text can be changed, the SVG text not. (because it would break people's files) Thanks a lot for your input, Johan

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libwpg error in compile
by Joshua Facemyer / Impressus Art 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

Anyone know why I get this error during compile? Make[2]: *** No rule to make target `extension/internal/libwpg/Makefile_insert', needed by `Makefile.in'. Stop. pygmee mentioned on irc today he was getting the same thing. I know libwpg was separated out a few weeks ago - how do I get around this? JF

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