Hi
I recently had to build Inkscape 0.91 in an environment that only had a minimal installation of Redhat (RHEL 6.5). I think it might be of interest to others and could be in addition of steps for compiling an older version (Inkscape 0.47 on RHEL 4) that is available on Wiki at
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/CompilingRHEL.
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For reference, a shell script that would be source of documentation :