tj wrote:

How do you configure and by-pass the package stuff. My system seems to have everything neccassary to build inkscape. But, since I built a lot from source and Slackware packages they are not in a .pc file so ./configure fails.

So, can is there a configure option that will build the make files and let me take care of any library problems by hand?

My libs are in what is considered the "statndard" dirs. /usr/lib, /lib, /usr/X11/lib, etc...

tj

Tj,

Hi. I build from source a lot, too, and I get stuff installed to /usr/local a lot, so I have the same problem. Look here at some notes that we have for compiling: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/CompilingInkscape

The info you need is probably how to prepend your pkgconfig dir(s) to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable. Once pkg-config can find those .pc files, things should get a lot easier.

bob