or you only use the official source packages after we fixed that bug by upgrading the machine that creates the official inkscape sources.
I don't get any hits on that bug number via google, but I'm confused: do you mean the bug is already "fixed" (by upgrading the machine...) or will hopefully be fixed someday when the official machine is upgraded? The latter interpretation makes more sense to me, but I want to be sure I'm understanding you correctly.
you understand correctly, and sorry if I was being unclear.
Whose machine is this, anyway?
Um, it's mine... Is that what you meant by "Whose machine?"
noo, I was fishing for the person that provides official tarballs or even snapshot tarballs to upgrade and add an option to configure.ac, so a different configure script will be generated so your and other problems will be solved.
ralf