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= Greeting =


This page documents the process I used to build Inkscape 0.47 on RHEL4.
Many consider RHEL4 to be an archaic operating system.
I think of it as mature, stable and predictable.  :-)
= Background and Motivation =
The corporation I work for is not free to run the latest OS versions.
We are constrained by our major application vendors.
That leaves us stuck on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Version #4,
which appears to come bundled with Inkscape 0.44
Meanwhile I'm watching all sorts of cool Inkscape tutorials on the web, but
they used later versions. My sys-admins would not consider an
Inkscape upgrade due to the contamination issue noted below.
The build process documented here avoids system installs
by using a local install point.
This is an old-school build as I download and compile source code
and do not use any RPMs.
I performed this process on 19-FEB-2010 so this information is
already out of date.
= List of packages =
Following is the list of packages which I used.
The process by which I arrived at this list was no small feat
iterating over 15 hours. I consider it a miracle that I
was able to find a compatible set of packages and C++ compiler.
They are listed here in the order in which I built them.
This is not the only build order. You can't tell by looking,
but gc6.8 has no dependencies and so could be built at any time.
The pango-1.24.5 package, on the other hand, requires cairo-1.8.8
and so the cairo package must be built first.
Not all of the packages listed here are the latest version
which was available at the time that I performed the build.
In several cases I had to back out 1 or 2 years because my
compiler of choice (gcc 3.4.4) did not like the more recent versions.
#libpng-1.2.41<br>
#pixman-0.17.4<br>
#freetype-2.3.9<br>
#fontconfig-2.8.0<br>
#cairo-1.8.8<br>
#glib-2.22.3<br>
#pango-1.24.5<br>
#jasper-1.701.0<br>
#atk-1.29.4<br>
#gtk+-2.17.0<br>
#libsigc++-2.2.0<br>
#gob2-2.0.16<br>
#glibmm-2.22.0<br>
#cairomm-1.6.4<br>
#pangomm-2.26.0<br>
#gtk+-2.18.7<br>
#gtkmm-2.18.2<br>
#gsl-1.13<br>
#gc6.8<br>
#libxml2-2.7.6<br>
#libxslt-1.1.26<br>
#lcms-1.19<br>
#inkscape-0.47<br>
= How to find a package =
I'm sorry that I do not include the location where I found each library.
I did not think to write that information down at the time. Especially
since I had no confidence in this entire process.
I do remember that they were not hard to find.
Perform a google search for the string "lib<package-name download"
For example:
:<tt>"libgc download"</tt>
Or, perhaps:
:<tt>"gtkmm download"</tt>
You will get multiple hits, but
hopefully one near the top will link to
an obvious home page for the package.
Your looking for a list of compressed tar files.
Something like this:
<pre>
    gc6.6.tar.gz        09-Sep-2005 12:04      736K
    gc6.7.tar.gz        03-Mar-2006 12:43      738K
    gc6.8.tar.gz        12-Jul-2006 17:17      739K
</pre>
The .gz files will be decompressed with gunzip.
You could also download .bz2 files and decompress
with bunzip2.
= Do not contaminate your computer =
I recommend that you pick a local installation directory
(as noted below) as opposed to installing packages into
standard system directories.
When you add new files (or replace existing) files
in system directories you are effectively contaminating
the computer. Programs that used to work may no longer
and you may not realize that harm has been not until
the trail has grown cold.
The other problem I typically have is that I will build
a program and it will work fine, but you never really
know why it works (ldd does not show the whole story)
So, you distribute to your customers and it does not
work because their system library set does not match
yours.
Certainly, if you are experimenting, this is the right move.
Also, you do not need sudo or the root password.
= Build directory layout =
Pick an empty directory in which to download
and build all packages.
In addition to a separate build directory for each package
add one additional sub-directory to server as the
installation point.
= Preparing your shell environment =
The following assumes that your root build directory
is "/home/me/inkscape" and that it has a sub-directory
named "install" which will serve as the installation point.
<tt>
:setenv INSTDIR "/home/me/inkscape/install"
:setenv CXXFLAGS "-I${INSTDIR}/include"
:setenv CPPFLAGS "-I${INSTDIR}/include"
:setenv LDFLAGS "-L${INSTDIR}/lib -lm"
:setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH "${INSTDIR}/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
:setenv PKG_CONFIG_PATH "${INSTDIR}/lib/pkgconfig"
:setenv PATH "${INSTDIR}/bin:${PATH}"
</tt>
Why do we need these settings?
There are package dependencies
For example, we build pango, cairo and jasper
earlier in the build-order which will be used to
build gtk+ later in the build order.
That explains <tt>CXXFLAGS</tt>(compilation flags),
<tt>CPPFLAGS</tt>(more compilation flags), <tt>LDFLAGS(link flags)</tt> and
<tt>PKG_CONFIG_PATH</tt>(used at link time, I guess)
I set <tt>PATH</tt> because some packages install programs
in the <tt>${INSTDIR}/bin</tt> directory. These programs are
used by later packages to determine version information.
Therefore, they must be found along the <tt>PATH</tt>.
I set <tt>LD_LIBRARY_PATH</tt> for the same reason.
For these programs to run they must find all
required libraries, some of which were installed
in the <tt>${INSTDIR}/lib</tt> directory.
I added the math library "-lm" to <tt>LDFLAGS</tt> to work
around the jasper library idiosyncrasy as noted below.
= Which compiler =
I used gcc version 3.4.4
= How to build a package =
The following procedure works in general for all packages,
but it specifically does not work for some of them.
The exceptions are noted in sections later in this document
So, you should not build any packages until you have read
this entire document.
Download the compressed tar file to the root directory.
Uncompress the file.
:<tt>gunzip xyz-1.2.3.tar.gz</tt>
De-tar the file. This will create a dedicated sub-directory in which to build the package.
:<tt>tar xvf xyz-1.2.3.tar</tt>
Change to the package directory.
:<tt>cd xyz-1.2.3</tt>
Configure the package.
<tt>
:./configure -prefix ${INSTDIR}
</tt>
Compile
<tt>
:make
</tt>
Install
<tt>
:make install
</tt>
Update the shells program cache.
<tt>
:rehash
</tt>
If you want to rebuild a component you will need
to do the following first:
<tt>
:make clean
:make distclean
</tt>
= Package idiosyncrasies =
== Build order and dependencies ==
The packages must be built and installed in the documented order.
<tt>./configure</tt> should not complain (and abort) about any dependency violations.
See the section on <tt>./configure</tt> later in this document.
== When building jasper-1.701.0 ==
1: By default, jasper builds to a static library, but packages which use jasper
expect a shared build so an additional argument must be added to the <tt>./configure</tt> command.
:<tt>./configure --prefix ${INSTDIR} --enable-shared</tt>
2: #The gtk configure script thought that jasper could not be found, but the real
problem was that the <tt>./configure</tt> test for availability failed to link because
it did not include the standard math library "-lm".  So, I added -lm to LDFLAGS and
then it was happy.  The lesson here is to always check the <tt>config.log</tt> file
for the *real* <tt>./configure</tt> failure story.
== When building libxml2-2.7.6 ==
1: <tt>./configure</tt> complains about this at the end, but it does not appear to mean anything significant.
:<tt>/bin/rm: cannot remove `libtoolT': No such file or directory</tt>
== When building libxslt-1.1.26 ==
1: lbxslt uses ../install/bin/xml2-config to determine the version of the libxml(2)
directory which is available.  This is an executable which needs to be found along the PATH.
So, the bin subdirectory of the install location has to be added to the PATH.  Thus the above "setenv PATH ..."
2: <tt>./configure</tt> complains about this at the end, but it does not appear
to mean anything significant.
:<tt>/bin/rm: cannot remove `libtoolT': No such file or directory</tt>
3: The libxsl package builds libraries and the program xsltproc I could not get
xsltproc to link, but it is not required to build Inkscape, so I edited the Makefile
and removed it so that the make would complete. Note: Makefiles are
made by <tt>./configure</tt>. That is what it does.
== When building inkscape-0.47 ==
1: Surprising compilation error in one of the source files.
:document.cpp:185: error: ISO C++ forbids casting between pointer-to-function and pointer-to-object
So I hacked line 185 from this:
:<tt>reinterpret_cast<gpointer>(sp_document_reset_key),</tt>
to this:
:<tt>reinterpret_cast<gpointer>((void*)sp_document_reset_key),</tt>
= Surviving <tt>./configure</tt> =
If it tells you that it can't find a dependent package, do not
jump to conclusions.
1: Always check the config.log file in cases of failure
for the bottom line.
As noted above, when <tt>./configure</tt> told me that it could not find
the jasper package, a look in the config.log file revealed that
the logic used to determine the existence of the jasper
package involved building a little test program. That test program
failed to link because it could not find symbols like pow and floor.
I new these came from the math library and fixed the problem by
adding "-lm" to the LDFLAGS environment variable.
2: One time I saw <tt>./configure</tt> say this:
:<tt>gmodule-2.0 >= 2.21.1) were not met</tt>
The first time I tried to build Inkscape (6 months ago)
it ended in frustration because I could not find the gmodule
package anywhere on the web. This time I found that gmodule
is actually a library and it is provided by the glib-2.22.3
package.
At the end of the build process the install/lib directory
contained 38 library files (*.so), but I only built 23 packages.
= The final ldd =
Following is the ldd() of the final Inkscape executable.
Note that the library versions listed in this table bear no correspondence
to the package from which they were built.
For example, we built libgtkmm from the package gtkmm-2.18.2, but got the library libgtkmm-2.4.so.1
This just adds to the confusion.
<tt>
:libgtkmm-2.4.so.1
:libatkmm-1.6.so.1
:libgdkmm-2.4.so.1
:libgiomm-2.4.so.1
:libpangomm-1.4.so.1
:libglibmm-2.4.so.1
:libcairomm-1.0.so.1
:libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
:libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0
:libatk-1.0.so.0
:libgio-2.0.so.0
:libpangoft2-1.0.so.0
:libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0
:libpangocairo-1.0.so.0
:libpango-1.0.so.0
:libfreetype.so.6
:libfontconfig.so.1
:libgobject-2.0.so.0
:libgmodule-2.0.so.0
:libxslt.so.1
:libz.so.1
:libxml2.so.2
:libcairo.so.2
:libsigc-2.0.so.0
:libgthread-2.0.so.0
:librt.so.1
:libglib-2.0.so.0
:libpng12.so.0
:libgsl.so.0
:libgslcblas.so.0
:libm.so.6
:libgomp.so.1
:libpopt.so.0
:libaspell.so.15
:libgc.so.1
:libstdc++.so.6
:libgcc_s.so.1
:libpthread.so.0
:libc.so.6
:libdl.so.2
:libX11.so.6
:libresolv.so.2
:libpixman-1.so.0
:libexpat.so.0
:libXrender.so.1
:libSM.so.6
:libICE.so.6
:libXinerama.so.1
:libXext.so.6
</tt>
= My operating system =
<tt>
>uname -a<br>
Linux juno.adsdesign.analog.com 2.6.9-89.0.9.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Aug 19 08:06:10 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>cat /etc/issue<br>
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 4 (Nahant Update 8)<br>
Kernel \r on an \m
</tt>

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