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Kees et al,
Sorry for the confusion, I forgot to declare a few environmental variables and this was causing the configure not to find the libpng (I think). Below is the complete list of stuff I'm using to configure the compilation:
ENV VARS: ===========
setenv CPATH "/sw/include" setenv LIBRARY_PATH "/usr/X11R6/lib:/sw/lib" setenv LIBS "-L/sw/lib -lintl " setenv PKG_CONFIG_PATH "/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig"
configure.in file: ============= ... dnl ****************************** dnl Use sigc-2.0 and gtkmm-2.4 only if both present dnl ****************************** ink_sigc_pkg=sigc++-1.2 ink_gtkmm_pkg= #ink_gtkmm_pkg=gtkmm-2.0 ...
Installed libraries: ============== libpng 1.2.5-4 libsigc++1.2.5 no gtkmmgrep
Output of all this: =============
... checking for gtk+-2.0 >= 2.0.0 libxml-2.0 >= 2-2.4.24 sigc++-1.2 gtkmm-2.0 ... Package gtkmm-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gtkmm-2.0.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'gtkmm-2.0' found
configure: error: Library requirements (gtk+-2.0 >= 2.0.0 libxml-2.0
= 2-2.4.24 sigc++-1.2 gtkmm-2.0 ) not met; consider adjusting the
PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them.
What I don't understand is why it tries to find the gtkmm2.0 package if the var is set to null, and thus the test should not fail.
Also, a few notes on macosx, apple and fink:
I am using macosx 10.2.8 (latest jaguar) and the package tree fink has for 10.2 does not allow for the installation of many recent updates on packages such as is the case for gtkmm (only 1.2.5 available through fink). One can manage to manually install many of such packages, though. The main reason I use X windows and all its related software, such as Inkscape, is its high degree of independency from capricious software sellers updating this or that system component and then making all programs need that component so to force a mass buying of updates (as Apple is doing in asking for over $100 for each updated version of macosx). If a regular macosx user needs to upgrade to panther in order to be able to install such X related packages, why, then there's no reason to be using X windows and opensource software at all, just stick to comercial aqua applications.
Conclusion:
What it all comes down to is that it would be really clarifying to have a depency list for inkscape: which version of inkscape needs exactly which versions of what software packages. I assume developers know this, and perhaps some could post the list somewhere on the inkscape website. Then any user could foresee whether this or that inkscape release suits his system or whether several upgrades are necessary.
Thank you for any help on all the above.
Albert