Hello
I made the following changes to the devlibs: 1. Upgrade Python to 2.6.5 2. Upgrade lxml to 2.2.4 3. Upgrade numpy to 1.4.1 4. Upgrade gettext-tools to 0.17
Please look for any breakage it might have introduced.
The gettext tools update was a bit problematic and two versions of libintl are now contained in the build dir: one is being used by Inkscape and the GTK stack, and the second one by the gettext tools. Fixing this would require either convincing the gettext binaries to use the devlibs libintl, which I have no idea how to do, or rebuilding all other libraries to use the one built by gettext.
In the longer run, I think that cross-compiling the devlibs from Linux might be less painful than recompiling them as needed in MSYS (mainly because MSYS is excruciatingly slow and sometimes doesn't work).
Regards, Krzysztof