On 17-Apr-2013 07:34, Christoffer Holmstedt wrote:
I just followed the compiling instructions at http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/CompilingUbuntu [1] on a clean install of Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS and I had to install the package "autopoint", which is not listed on that wiki page, to get the autogen.sh script working.
That was my experience as well. If memory serves there was some obscure error message, which when googled indicated that autopoint needed to be installed, which I did and that fixed it. The correct behavior, which is not what we have now, is that if a dependency is missing autogen.sh would stop and emit an error message: "Missing dependency. Inkscape requires XYZ" (here, xyz=autopoint).
Anyone running Ubuntu Raring that can confirm that its the same for later releases than 12.04?
Hard to imagine why the dependency would go away with later OS releases, although those might have autopoint installed by default, so that it might not ever be evident during a build that it was required.
Regards,
David Mathog mathog@...1176... Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech