Building cairomm (inkscape dependency) fails

[Jason Merrill]

On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 7:00 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for the tip

> > > > 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.

This sounds pretty impractical.  Until recently, I believe pdf2svg was
not available through macports.  What is one recommended to do?

Regards,

JM