(Posted as question #123799 on Launchpad) https://answers.launchpad.net/inkscape/+question/123799
For Debian/Ubuntu packaging purposes, it would be preferable for us to build against an external (clean) version of libcroco rather than using the one currently in the Inkscape source-tree. A while ago, someone asked at the Debian bugtracker about this: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=427946
At the time, it seems that a patched version of libcroco-0.6 was included in the source tree of inkscape-0.45, and that Inkscape could not be built with the upstream version of libcroco. Since then, a lot of changes have been made in Inkscape (including the removal of src/libcroco/README) and there is a new upstream version (0.6.2) of libcroco. Please could someone update us on the situation? Specifically:
* Which version of libcroco is included with Inkscape 0.47/0.48? * Have any changes been made to the bundled library? * Can Inkscape be built successfully using a clean external libcroco?
Thanks,
Alex