On Apr 24, 2006, at 10:50 AM, Andrew Wilson wrote:

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checking for pkg-config... /sw/bin/pkg-config

checking for png_read_info in -lpng... no

configure: error: libpng >= 1.2 is needed to compile inkscape

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This is for a fresh FINK install as per:


    http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/CompilingMacOsX


./configure ends without reporting a summary.



On my system, I have libpng3 and libpng3-shlibs installed.

One other problem might be the gcc version fink was built with versus the default one on your system.

Try gcc --version to see which you have. Some people get 4.0 by default, but their fink with 3.3