[NMU] inkscape 0.92.3-2 (Test)

[Mark Geisert]

ASSI via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> Mark Geisert via Cygwin-apps writes:
>> I've uploaded a non-maintainer re-build of the existing inkscape
>> 0.92.3. This attempts to work around a problem with the current
>> inkscape reported to exit with 127 error code (missing DLL).  This
>> build was produced with gcc-g++ 7.4 while the current build was
>> produced with gcc-g++ 6.4.  Newer gcc-g++ releases fail to build
>> inkscape due to C++ include file evolution.
> 
> Since apparently you can compile it with that compiler on an otherwise
> current release of Cygwin (I assume), you should be able to request a
> previous C++ or G++ standard version and have the current compiler do
> the same?  The baseline for gcc-6 until gcc-10 has been C++14 and gcc-11
> switched to C++17.  You should also check that the compiler is detected
> correctly, there are some configure scripts that fail to take higher
> version numbers (esp. double digits for the main gcc version) correctly into
> account and then set bogus options.  Inkscape shouldn't have been using
> C++11 until 0.93, so the appropriate standard to invoke is probably
> C++98 (or thew GNU variant thereof).

Thanks much, Achim, for pointing out that additional dimension. That should help 
with my future builds and/or ITA.

..mark