Failure to compile Inkscape: ‘G_CONST_RETURN’ does not name a type

[Xavier Fung]

I compile Inkscape trunk on ArchLinux and got this error.

  CXX extension/internal/cairo-render-context.o
In file included from /usr/include/pango-1.0/pango/pango-context.h:26:0,
                 from /usr/include/pango-1.0/pango/pango.h:28,
                 from /usr/include/gtk-2.0/gdk/gdktypes.h:37,
                 from /usr/include/gtk-2.0/gdk/gdkscreen.h:32,
                 from /usr/include/gtk-2.0/gdk/gdkapplaunchcontext.h:31,
                 from /usr/include/gtk-2.0/gdk/gdk.h:32,
                 from /usr/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtk.h:32,
                 from ./display/sp-canvas-item.h:27,
                 from ./display/canvas-bpath.h:20,
                 from extension/internal/cairo-render-context.cpp:37:
/usr/include/pango-1.0/pango/pango-fontmap.h:92:1: error: ‘G_CONST_RETURN’ does not name a type
make[3]: *** [extension/internal/cairo-render-context.o] Error 1

It seems like something related to GTK2 and Pango. I have the following installed on my machine.

local/gtk2 2.24.14-1
    GTK+ is a multi-platform toolkit (v2)
local/pango 1.32.4-1
    A library for layout and rendering of text

Just wonder if this is an upstream bug or not.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

AFAICT this seems related to an upstream bug in pango 1.23.4:
  689843 – pango-fontmap.h:92:16: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'char
  <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=689843>

Inkscape trunk does define G_DISABLE_DEPRECATED:
<http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/trunk/view/head:/configure.ac#L58>

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Sorry, typo:
- AFAICT this seems related to an upstream bug in pango 1.23.4:
+ AFAICT this seems related to an upstream bug in pango 1.32.4:

[Alex Valavanis (valavanisalex)]

Should be fixed in lp:inkscape r11938. Let me know if it is still causing problems.

I've also bumped the Pango requirement to > 1.24 so we don't need to support ancient versions.

Marking as "Fix Released" because the stable Inkscape versions don't define G_DISABLE_DEPRECATED.