Dear All,
I have completed the migration of Inkscape trunk to use CMake as its build system. This is already the preferred option for the 0.92.x release, and the PPA build has been using CMake successfully for the last couple of months.
You will still be able to use Autotools or btool builds as a fallback option for the forthcoming stable Inkscape 0.92.x releases (lp:inkscape/0.92.x) but you will need to use CMake for the latest trunk builds (lp:inkscape), and for all future stable releases (0.93 onwards).
This is part of a long-running plan to improve our build system, and will be much easier to maintain, and offer much better cross-platform support than our previous solutions.
This represents a change in workflow for many developers and maintainers, so please accept our apologies for any inconvenience. We will very gratefully receive any bug reports, or answer any queries about this transition and use them to improve the package.
Best wishes,
Alex