When built with GCC 4.4, inkscape crashes with the following error: Emergency save activated! Emergency save completed. Inkscape will close now. If you can reproduce this crash, please file a bug at www.inkscape.org with a detailed description of the steps leading to the crash, so we can fix it. Segmentation fault This bug is described here, with a patch attached: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/337357 After applying the patch and rebuilding inkscape, the error no longer occurs.
+ 08 May 2009; Peter Alfredsen <loki_val@gentoo.org> + inkscape-0.46-r5.ebuild, +files/inkscape-0.46-gcc44_p2.patch: + Fix runtime crash with gcc-4.4, bug 268992. Thanks to Daniel J. + <sleeperseven@hotmail.com> for the patch. +