On Monday 26 June 2006 15:25, Bryan K. Wright wrote:
Is there any chance of getting a statically-linked, rpm-packaged version of inkscape 0.44? I'm missing the appropriate versions of libcairo, libglitz and libpangocairo.
Well, yes and no. The problem is that until a few months ago the RPMs were built against GTK+ 2.4 as per the requirements, until it didn't build anymore. I had to upgrade to GTK+ 2.6, which introduces bogus dependencies on pangocairo and glitz, among others.
So I tried to statically link those libs, but to no avail. They build and install but don't link.
I then tried appbuild, which is capable of removing bogus dependencies, but the compilation fails and I couldn't figure out why.
I did then some more compiling, until I had no longer much time to do something about it and then released the RPMs with the unresolved dependencies. I thought it was better than nothing and was still hoping to fix the issue in a matter of days. But it's more complicated than I thought.
So, to answer your question, progress can be achieved if someone is willing to give a hand.