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When you report a trouble about building CVS version of inkscape,
Please report following information about distro and tools version, too.

--1. distribution------------------------------------------------------------
distro: Cannot find distribution information
Terminating....

--2. tools-------------------------------------------------------------------
/usr/bin/m4: GNU m4 1.4.1
/usr/bin/autoconf: autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.59
/usr/bin/autoheader: autoheader (GNU Autoconf) 2.59
/usr/bin/automake: automake (GNU automake) 1.5
/usr/bin/automake-1.7: automake (GNU automake) 1.7.9
/usr/bin/automake-1.8: automake (GNU automake) 1.8.5
/usr/bin/aclocal: aclocal (GNU automake) 1.5
/usr/bin/aclocal-1.7: aclocal (GNU automake) 1.7.9
/usr/bin/aclocal-1.8: aclocal (GNU automake) 1.8.5
/usr/bin/intltoolize: intltoolize (GNU intltool) 0.30
/usr/bin/gettextize: /usr/bin/gettextize (GNU gettext-tools) 0.12.1
/usr/bin/libtoolize: libtoolize (GNU libtool) 1.5.2

--3. environment variables---------------------------------------------------
MANPATH=/usr/share/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/usr/qt/3/doc/man:/opt/vmware/man
PRELINK_PATH_MASK=
CXXFLAGS=-march=pentium3 -O2 -pipe -mmmx -msse -mfpmath=sse,387 -frename-registers
PATH=/usr/lib/ccache/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/lib/portage/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/athena/sbin:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/3.3:/opt/Acrobat5:/usr/X11R6/bin:/opt/sun-j2sdk-1.4.2/bin:/opt/sun-j2sdk-1.4.2/jre/bin:/usr/qt/3/bin:/usr/kde/3.2/sbin:/usr/kde/3.2/bin:/opt/vmware/bin:/usr/share/karamba/bin
LANG=ru_RU.KOI8-R
DCCC_PATH=/usr/lib/distcc/bin
LANGUAGE=07
PRELINK_PATH=
CFLAGS=-march=pentium3 -O2 -pipe -mmmx -msse -mfpmath=sse,387 -frename-registers
ROOTPATH=/usr/local/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/athena/sbin:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/3.3:/opt/Acrobat5:/usr/X11R6/bin:/opt/sun-j2sdk-1.4.2/bin:/opt/sun-j2sdk-1.4.2/jre/bin:/usr/qt/3/bin:/usr/kde/3.2/sbin:/usr/kde/3.2/bin:/opt/vmware/bin:/usr/share/karamba/bin
CLASSPATH=.:/opt/sun-j2sdk-1.4.2/jre/lib:/opt/sun-j2sdk-1.4.2/lib/tools.jar:.
INFOPATH=/usr/share/info:/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3/info
LADSPA_PATH=/usr/lib/ladspa

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I am testing that you have the required versions of libtool, autoconf,
automake, glib-gettextize and intltoolize. This test is not foolproof,
so if anything goes wrong, see the file HACKING for more information...

checking for autoconf >= 2.52 ... yes (version 2.59)
checking for automake >= 1.7 ... yes (version 1.7.9)
checking for glib-gettextize >= 2.0.0 ... yes (version 2.4.4)
checking for intltool >= 0.17 ... yes (version 0.30)

Running aclocal-1.7 ...
Running autoheader ...
Running automake-1.7 --add-missing ...
  configure.in: installing `./install-sh'
  configure.in: installing `./missing'
  configure.in:5: installing `./config.guess'
  configure.in:5: installing `./config.sub'
  Makefile.am: installing `./INSTALL'
  configure.in:25: required file `./ltmain.sh' not found
  src/Makefile.am: installing `./depcomp'
Please fix the error conditions and try again.

!!! ERROR: media-gfx/inkscape-cvs-1.0 failed.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 43, Exitcode 1
!!! (no error message)