Hi all,
  I am slowly becoming desperate. I have been trying to compile from svn the same way I always have:
svn update
autogen.sh
./configure --prefix=/var/opt/ --with-perl --with-python --with-xft --enable-lcms --enable-inkboard --with-gnome-vfs
make
make install

But now I have a new machine: a dual core 64 bit AMD running OpenSuse 11.1.
When running ./configure ...... it keeps complaining about:
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checking for png_read_info in -lpng... no
configure: error: libpng >= 1.2 is needed to compile inkscape
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I have already installed all packages I thought might be useful:
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# rpm -qa | grep png
libpng-devel-1.2.31-4.35.1
libpng12-0-32bit-1.2.31-4.35.1
libpng-devel-32bit-1.2.31-4.35.1
latex2html-pngicons-2002.2.1-604.27
libpng3-1.2.31-4.35.1
libpng12-0-1.2.31-4.35.1
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But still no luck. Is the configure script looking for libpng's devel files somewhere strange?

  Thanks for your help,