On Sat, 2008-02-02 at 07:37 +1100, Phil Rhoades wrote:

Anyway, unlike many previous attempts to build Inkscape from source or a package install, this time it finally worked! However, the facility I was hanging out for - PDF import - still seems to be missing?

Chances are you need the libpoppler development package are. If you look at the end of your ./configure script it'll tell you what it's planning to install and not.

--Ted