Hi! emerging inkscape 0.47_pre0 failed for me with: ----- checking for INKSCAPE... configure: error: Package requirements (gdkmm-2.4 glibmm-2.4 giomm-2.4 gtkmm-2.4 >= 2.10.0 gtk+-2.0 libxml-2.0 >= 2.6.11 libxslt >= 1.0.15 cairo sigc++-2.0 >= 2.0.12 gtkspell-2.0 gthread-2.0 >= 2.0 libpng >= 1.2 gsl) were not met: ----- (I lost the paste for the next line, but it said that "gsl" was missing) So I had to emerge: sci-libs/gsl This ebuild should probaly be pushed into the DEPENDs of inkscape.
Confirming with USE="inkjar jabber nls postscript wmf wpg -debug -dia -doc -gnome -lcms (-mmx) -spell".
fixed in cvs, thanks for the report. 27 Jun 2009; Markus Meier <maekke@gentoo.org> inkscape-0.47_pre0.ebuild: specify libpng dep, add sci-libs/gsl dep wrt bug #274204