Building cairomm (inkscape dependency) fails

[Jason Merrill]

On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Guido Soranzio
<guido.soranzio at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 19, 2008, at 4:34 PM, Jason Merrill wrote:
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> > Can you be more explicit about what I need to do?
> >
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>  It should suffice creating a link:
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>  sudo ln -s /opt/local/bin/python2.5 /opt/local/bin/python
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> > 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?
> >
>
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>  That's because Inkscape 0.46 is executing "python" and it launches
>  the one provided by Apple in /usr/bin.
>
>
>  -Guido

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

Thanks again for all your help.

Regards,

JM