Hi, I finally have the time to do what Kees Cook suggested. I updated my local cvs dir just now and did "./autogen.sh", which throws at the end:
---output--- checking for autoconf >= 2.52 ... yes (version 2.57) checking for automake >= 1.6 ... yes (version 1.7.6) checking for glib-gettextize >= 2.0.0 ... yes (version 2.2.3) checking for intltool >= 0.17 ... yes (version 0.27.2) 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 /opt/gnome/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 ---/output---
What should I do? Where do I copy the files from /opt/gnome/share/aclocal to?
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Actually you can ignore those warnings. They've always been there but don't actually affect anything. Nobody's bothered to fix them, though they probably should be investigated and suppressed.
Fwiw, your autoconf macro directory will be in somewhere like /usr/share/aclocal or /usr/local/share/aclocal/. Again though, you don't actually need to copy the files - Inkscape will compile and run just fine if you don't.
Bryce