Michael Wybrow wrote:

On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Bob Jamison wrote:

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Inkscape SVN started recently crashing on startup since it can't find any of its share files. This is because of some defines in the generated config.h: #define INKSCAPE_DATADIR "${datarootdir}" #define PACKAGE_LOCALE_DIR "${datarootdir}/locale"

I believe these should have been expanded to the value of datarootdir.

Recently, autoconf's new version changed its variable naming from ${prefix} and ${datadir} to ${datarootdir}. The change is to be able to use the new names. It is doc'd here:

http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/html_node/Changed-Directory-Vari...

It would be good if you could get this to work. Obviously it needs a tweak or two to run on both versions of autoconf.

I thought we discussed this on the list a few weeks ago?

Thankyou. I will read up and figure out what is going on. I obviously missed the previous thread, I'll go back and look for that now.

I lack the expertise to come up with any solutions, but it'd be very nice if this could be fixed because it would allow me to use a normal Inkscape version and another one from SVN at the same time (right now when I run configure with --prefix=/usr/dev it'll just ignore it).