On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 07:45:23PM -0400, John R. Culleton wrote: > I downloaded the stable tarball to my Slackware system and > immediately ran into compile problems. So on a hunch I downloaded > Inkscape-current and it compiled like a champ. > > I had previously downloaded/installed the Freerock gnome package. Slack > no longer contains Gnome. > > > BTW it still doesn't work: > --------------------------------------- > *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x0865ebc0 *** > > Emergency save activated! > Emergency save completed. Inkscape will close now. > If you can reproduce this crash, please file a bug at www.inkscape.org > with a detailed description of the steps leading to the crash, so we can > fix it. You've probably upgraded gcc somewhere along the line and run into the infamous gcc C++ ABI change problem. You need to make sure all of the C++ libs Inkscape needs are compiled with (roughly) the same version of gcc as you're using to compile Inkscape.

Generally, the best solution is to just re-compile libsigc++, libstdc++, libgtkmm, and libgkdmm. o

http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/FAQ#On_Linux.2C_Inkscape_crashes_wi th_.22invalid_pointer.22_message > I am thinking of adding another partition just to get a working > Inkscape. Is there a Linux distro that comes with Inkscape? Pretty much all of them do. You've many options. But I'm 99% sure the above will fix your error; try that first.

Frankly, a new install is less work than chasing down the source code for these libraries, downloading it, recompiling it etc. Does Ubuntu include Inkscape? Debian unstable? Knoppix? Other?

BTW it still doesn't work: --------------------------------------- *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x0865ebc0 ***

I downloaded the stable tarball to my Slackware system and immediately ran into compile problems. So on a hunch I downloaded Inkscape-current and it compiled like a champ. I had previously downloaded/installed the Freerock gnome package. Slack no longer contains Gnome.

Well I did what Lars suggested and it works! There is one little gotcha. The package should not be untarred in /usr/local/ but rather in /. Perhaps I should have used pkgtool. In any case version 44 works now on my system.