Building cairomm (inkscape dependency) fails

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Apr 19, 2008, at 11:52 AM, Jason Merrill wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Guido Soranzio wrote:
>> On Apr 19, 2008, at 4:34 PM, Jason Merrill wrote:
>>> Can you be more explicit about what I need to do?
>>
>>  It should suffice creating a link:
>>
>>  sudo ln -s /opt/local/bin/python2.5 /opt/local/bin/python

You should not manually make this symlink. Instead you should install  
the port python_select and use it to manage that symlink for you.


>>> It complains about needing py-xml, even though py25-xml is already
>>> installed.  TexText had previously worked with a Macports install of
>>> inkscape 0.45.  Any advice on this one?
>>
>>  That's because Inkscape 0.46 is executing "python" and it launches
>>  the one provided by Apple in /usr/bin.
>
> That did the trick.  The only other thing I had to do was install
> pdf2svg through macports to get the textext extension working.  For
> some reason, it wasn't happy with the pdf2svg I had previously
> installed in /usr/local/bin

When using MacPorts it is not recommended to also use (or even have)  
software installed in /usr/local.