On 17-Jul-2014 10:23, Shamit Verma wrote:

I am trying to build Inkscape for an environment where only RedHat 6 distribution of Linux is available.

I have been doing a lot of software development lately, but not for Inkscape, on a RedHat 5 system. There were all sorts of libraries where it just wasn't possible to find a current version as an RPM. That includes "boost". In other cases there were current dynamic versions, but the software wanted static, and there was no RPM for that. In the end these problem libraries were built and installed in /usr/local. That complicates matters because one ends up with two versions of everything and the order of the search paths for includes and links is crucial. I suspect you are going to run into a lot of this when you try to build Inkscape.

In terms of development tools, you probably want to find and install the most recent "devtoolset" rpms. That will give you reasonably up to date gcc tools, on my system it is 4.8.2. The other versions available as rpms were quite old. devtoolset is a bit strange though, it has to be run like:

scl enable devtoolset-2 'make <target_name>'

Regards,

David Mathog mathog@...1176... Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech