Re: [Inkscape-user] no perl extensions with inkscape-current

Lars Behrens wrote:

I'm trying to compile Inkscape-current (Slackware current, gcc 3.3.5, perl 5.8.6) but there's an issue with perl, ./configure statu shows the following:

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Configuration:

    Source code location:     .
    Destination path prefix:  /usr/local
    Compiler:                 g++
    CPPFLAGS:
    CXXFLAGS:                 -Wall -W -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align 

-Wsign-compare -Woverloaded-virtual -Wswitch -Wno-unused-parameter -g -O2 LDFLAGS:

    Use Xft font database:    yes
    Use gnome-print:          no
    Use gnome-vfs             no
    Use openoffice files:     yes
    Use MMX optimizations:    yes
    Use relocation support:   no
    Use Python extensions:    yes
    Use Perl extensions:      no

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Maybe a helpful soul give me a hint, what to do....

I had the same problem until I figured out that I didn't have the libperl-dev package installed. That was on debian. I have no experience with slackware.

Aaron Spike