Hm. Did you run a full autogen.sh/configure cycle?
Yes here's the output:
============================================================================= When you report a trouble about building CVS version of inkscape, Please report following information about distro and tools version, too.
--1. distribution------------------------------------------------------------ Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar)
--2. tools------------------------------------------------------------------- /usr/bin/m4: GNU m4 1.4 /usr/bin/autoconf: autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.57 /usr/bin/autoheader: autoheader (GNU Autoconf) 2.57 /usr/bin/automake: automake (GNU automake) 1.7.6 /usr/bin/automake-1.7: automake (GNU automake) 1.7.6 automake-1.8: not found /usr/bin/aclocal: aclocal (GNU automake) 1.6.3 /usr/bin/aclocal-1.7: aclocal (GNU automake) 1.7.6 aclocal-1.8: not found /usr/bin/intltoolize: intltoolize (GNU intltool) 0.27.2 /usr/bin/gettextize: /usr/bin/gettextize (GNU gettext) 0.11.5 /usr/bin/libtoolize: libtoolize (GNU libtool) 1.4.3
--3. environment variables--------------------------------------------------- NLSPATH=/usr/share/locale/%l/%N PATH=/home/d/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/bin:/home/d/bin/java_sdk/bin LANG=en_US GS_FONTPATH=/home/d/psfonts:/usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript HFILE_PATH=/home/d/tide/harmonics.txt:/home/d/tide/offsets.xml LANGUAGE=en_US PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/
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I am testing that you have the required versions of libtool, autoconf, automake, glib-gettextize and intltoolize. This test is not foolproof, so if anything goes wrong, see the file HACKING for more information...
checking for autoconf >= 2.52 ... yes (version 2.57) checking for automake >= 1.7 ... yes (version 1.7.6) checking for glib-gettextize >= 2.0.0 ... yes (version 2.4.4) checking for intltool >= 0.17 ... yes (version 0.27.2) configure.in:7: version mismatch. This is Automake 1.7.6, configure.in:7: but the definition used by this AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE configure.in:7: comes from Automake 1.6.3. You should recreate configure.in:7: aclocal.m4 with aclocal and run automake again. /usr/share/automake-1.7/am/depend2.am: am__fastdepCXX does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL Copying file po/Makefile.in.in
Please add the files codeset.m4 gettext.m4 glibc21.m4 iconv.m4 isc-posix.m4 lcmessage.m4 progtest.m4 from the /usr/share/aclocal directory to your autoconf macro directory or directly to your aclocal.m4 file. You will also need config.guess and config.sub, which you can get from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/config/.
patching file po/Makefile.in.in
What does tools-version.sh show for you?
see above in autogen output