Hello again,

Sorry, I think I fixed it myself. I missed some dependencies here: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/CompilingUbuntu#Installing_dependenc... After installing those, autogen.sh and configure ran fine.

Best, Eelke

On 6 October 2015 at 10:24, Eelke Spaak <eelke.spaak@...155...> wrote:

Hello all,

Because I had been issues with extremely sluggish text editing in complex SVG files (see https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1219794?comments=all) I thought I'd get the source code and apply the (very simple) patch provided in that bug thread and compile it myself.

I was able to get a working copy of the trunk, and I read the INSTALL file. However, the "./configure" file was not present (even though INSTALL seemed to assume it should be there). I managed to generate the configure-script by running "./autogen.sh" (after installing the required dependencies).

When I try to run ./configure, however, it does some stuff, and then gives me an error:

./configure: line 5995: syntax error near unexpected token `2.2' ./configure: line 5995: `LT_PREREQ(2.2)'

Checking a bit further back, it actually seems that although the autogen.sh ended with "Done! Please run './configure' now.", there is an error there as well. I am attaching the full output of both autogen.sh and the subsequent call to configure to this email.

Hopefully someone can help me to compile Inkscape, so I could apply the patch for mega-slow text editing and get back to designing my poster :)

Thank you, best, Eelke Spaak