I am getting the following failure on a RHEL4 system on an AMD64 machine when configuring:
... checking libgc version 6.4+... no configure: error: libgc (the Boehm Conservative Collector) 6.4+, is needed to compile inkscape -- http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc
Doing a 'locate libgc' finds a lot of things (obviously, since it matches partials), but the notable ones: /usr/local/gc6.6/.libs/libgc.so /usr/local/gc6.6/.libs/libgc.lai /usr/local/gc6.6/.libs/libgc.a /usr/local/gc6.6/.libs/libgc.la /usr/local/gc6.6/.libs/libgc.so.1.0.2 /usr/local/gc6.6/.libs/libgc.so.1 /usr/local/gc6.6/libgc.la and /usr/local/lib/libgc.so /usr/local/lib/libgc.a /usr/local/lib/libgc.la /usr/local/lib/libgc.so.1.0.2 /usr/local/lib/libgc.so.1
This is because I downloaded and compiled from the Boehm site mentioned in the configure error.
I am not a programmer (am a sysadmin) but I believe what is going on is that ./configure needs to know where to find gc. I have tried using up2date to install libgc and libgc-devel, but the version is wrong (6.2.255).
What are the configure args I need to include here to point to the new gc object?
Alternatively, does anyone know of a libgc-6.4+ rpm anywhere? I have searched a few repos and not found any (all 6.2).
John