On Friday 19 February 2010 04:16:17 pm william.crocker@...2318... wrote:

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Oops. Now I have homework.

I will forge ahead and see if I can build Inkscape here in the 19th century. If so, I will document the libraries which I used, their versions and the apparent build order. I can then publish that information, but it will have a finite life-time as with the information referenced above.

I don't believe it, but I am looking at Inkscape 0.47 running on my RedHat #4 machine.

• I had to download and compile 21 separate components and many of them multiple times before I found versions I could work with.

• I have a build order.

• Some of the components built without issue, but a number of them required pampering. I've written it all down.

• I have a list of environment variables which I had to set to trick it all into working.

What would you like me to do with this information?

I would like to thank you for your time and effort. Your struggle will help other RHEL users.

http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/CompilingRHEL will most likely be the best place to put it. It is currently empty so feel free to form it to your will. You will also need to add a RHEL link to the http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Compiling_Inkscape page.

Again without users willing to go the extra mile inkscape could not exist. Thank You.

Joshua L. Blocher verbalshadow