Hello, I found that this small change prevents a startup crash on OS X 10.3.9 (also added to https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/185689):
--- inkscape.trunk/src/sp-filter.cpp.orig Sat Dec 22 12:15:36 2007 +++ inkscape.trunk/src/sp-filter.cpp.noStartupCrash Sat Feb 2 08:55:03 2008 @@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ sp_filter_init(SPFilter *filter)
filter->_renderer = NULL;
- filter->_image_name = map<gchar *, int, ltstr>(); + filter->_image_name.clear();
filter->filterRes = NumberOptNumber();
While I'm happy that Inkscape can actually run, it's not obvious to me why this fixes the crash, nor if this is generaly an acceptable thing to do. Could someone possibly test that this does not cause a problem on another platform?
By the way, after applying this patch, I have another crash in sp-filter.cpp when opening "Help->About Inkscape", so I wonder if there's either a std::map problem with gcc 3.3 or memory is getting trashed. Random theories welcome :-).
Thanks!, John