Jeff Kowalczyk wrote:
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:40:06 -0500, Joshua Facemyer / Impressus Art wrote:
Two suggestions (don't know much, but I run Gentoo on AMD64):
Did you try rebuilding cairo-pango?
I presume you mean the cairo and the pango packages. I just rebuilt those for this reply, and inkscape via the ebuild - No effect, unfortunately. The build problem started manifesting on my old laptop, and continues on my new one (all new install mid september), so it's appeared on at least two systems.
That's interesting. I've got two amd64 boxes that build just fine, one new install (August) and one just newly rebuilt. Do you have extravagant cflags? Can't think of why else, except the ebuild possibly.
Did you try not using the ebuild? (It's how I build, works like a charm for me and usually easier, since I don't know how to update ebuilds)
I haven't tried that recently, mostly because I try to never run the 'make install' step on unpackaged software. If it's a program without desktop integration, I'm happy to run it from the build directory. In Inkscape's case, though. I don't have a good way to track what files and file association settings inkscape would copy for its GNOME integration.
Hmm...I've not had any trouble. I use both the stable and svn versions (I prefix it to $HOME/.local).
If you're worried about clogging up your home dir, maybe you could make a test user and try it that way. You could then at least see if it builds without the ebuild.
JF