On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 4:08 PM Adam Carter <adamcarter3@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 3:41 PM <tuxic@posteo.de> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> while syncing/updateing my system, inkscape failed to compile:
>>
>
> Nikos posted about cairo issue recently that revdep-rebuild didnt fix. I
> had a similar issue with different software. In my case;
>
> emerge -1 x11-libs/cairo dev-cpp/cairomm dev-python/pycairo
>
> Fixed it. Not sure which package was the problem.
>

dev-cpp/cairomm seems like the most likely candidate as its files are
mentioned in Nikos' and your build errors, so try rebuilding that one first.