[oi-dev] inkscape calls gcc7 and 10

[Tim Mooney]

In regard to: Re: [oi-dev] inkscape calls gcc7 and 10, Udo Grabowski (IMK)...:

> On 04/07/2023 11:08, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote:
>> On 04/07/2023 10:53, Marcel Telka wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jul 04, 2023 at 10:20:32AM +0200, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> the story with the mixup continues, this time inkscape.
>>>> Crashes, shows both gcc/7 and gcc/10
>>> 
>>> The inkscape's problems are basically these:

Since Udo brought it up, I took a look at what's involved in updating
inkscape to current latest stable (0.92.4 -> 1.2.2).

The old all-in-one source is no longer a thing, so if we build from
released tarballs, we'll potentially need to fetch and extract multiple
components.

Questions about that:

1) lib2geom is required, but it could be built and packaged separately.
Nothing else (other than inkscape) that I'm aware of uses it currently.

Would it be preferable to have it as a separate package, or just build it
and package it in the same package as inkscape?

2) some of the extensions require low-use libraries, like the 'libwpd'
that Udo mentioned.

Should the inkscape extensions that require these esoteric libraries be
split into separate packages, so 'image/inkscape' has fewer dependencies,
but 'image/inkscape/extension/wordperfect' (or whatever) can optionally
be installed to get support for that legacy format?

Next, 1.2.2 actually builds without *any* of the local patches, though I still
need to look through them to see if there are any OI-customization patches
that we still need.

Many of the existing patches are for math library functions like
log(), sin(), pow(), etc. where integers rather than doubles were being
passed.  I can update these so they apply to 1.2.2, but they seem to be
no longer required (probably because of gcc/g++ 10.x).

Question:

3) is it worth updating these patches, if they're not needed to actually
build any more?  I'm tempted to say no, but I'm willing to update them
if Andreas or others have strong feelings about keeping as many as
possible.

Thanks,

Tim
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