[gentoo-amd64] Re: wxSVGXML?

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

"Mark Haney" <mhaney@ercbroadband.org> posted
4846A91C.6010605@ercbroadband.org, excerpted below, on  Wed, 04 Jun 2008
10:39:24 -0400:

> Thanks to everyone for helping this ebuild n00b get working.  I've get
> everything setup, but now I've hit a snag. The ebuild I am working on
> requires svgxml.h and I cannot find that file.  With other distros it's
> in the wxsvg-devel package (or similar), but I can't find one for that
> in Gentoo.  With wxsvg, there's a wxSVG and wxXML folder in
> /usr/include/, but neither have this file.
> 
> I don't even know where to begin looking for it in Gentoo.  Ideas?

I don't have the file and don't have any of the wxWidgets installed, but 
at a guess... wrong version.  This seems to be confirmed with a search:

Google this for the fedora 1.0 beta 10 package:
wxsvg-devel-1.0-0.8.b10 svgxml.h

Now replace the b10 with b9, b8, etc.  No hits.  Delete the svgxml.h bit 
and you get hits again, so it's seeing the package, just not that file in 
the package.

Therefore, it would seem that file was added in beta 10.

Unfortunately, Gentoo's tree is outdated, with only the beta 7 ebuild.  A 
quick check of bugzy results in:

media-libs/wxsvg-1.0_beta10 version bump request
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215665

Seems they're working on it, but it needs some patches to work with 
Gentoo, and while it's building, it isn't actually functional (segfaults).

So... you can try hacking that ebuild and see if you can get it to work, 
or building and installing manually, to see if that works.  I'd certainly 
suggest CCing yourself to the bug.

It's also possible that whatever you are trying to build against that 
header file, you can either find an older version that builds against 
beta 7, or maybe, you can merge the building but segfaulting beta 10, and 
not have it matter if all you need are the header files.

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