I tried to build inkscape (ver. 0.46) on my intel mac book (OS X 10.4.11). The first make stopped with the error reported in https://bugs.launchpad.net/gentoo/+source/inkscape/+bug/238223 . I followed the instructions I found there, and tried again. This time I got this error :
g++ -Wall -Wformat-security -W -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wsign-compare -Woverloaded-virtual -Wswitch -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wno-unused-parameter -g -O2 --export-dynamic -o inkscape main.o libinkpre.a application/libinkapp.a ui/dialog/libuidialog.a dialogs/libspdialogs.a ui/cache/libuicache.a jabber_whiteboard/libjabber_whiteboard.a pedro/libpedro.a trace/libtrace.a svg/libspsvg.a widgets/libspwidgets.a display/libspdisplay.a helper/libspchelp.a libcroco/libcroco.a libnrtype/libnrtype.a libnr/libnr.a libavoid/libavoid.a livarot/libvarot.a live_effects/liblive_effects.a live_effects/parameter/liblpeparam.a ui/view/libuiview.a ui/libui.a ui/widget/libuiwidget.a libgdl/libgdl.a graphlayout/libgraphlayout.a removeoverlap/libremoveoverlap.a libcola/libcola.a libvpsc/libvpsc.a extension/libextension.a extension/implementation/libimplementation.a extension/internal/libinternal.a extension/script/libscript.a dom/libdom.a xml/libspxml.a 2geom/lib2geom.a util/libinkutil.a io/libio.a inkjar/libinkjar.a libinkpost.a debug/libinkdebug.a -L/usr/local/lib -lgtkmm-2.4 -lgiomm-2.4 -lgdkmm-2.4 -latkmm-1.6 -lpangomm-1.4 -lcairomm-1.0 -lglibmm-2.4 -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lgio-2.0 -lpangoft2-1.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lpangocairo-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lfreetype -lfontconfig -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -lxslt -lz -lpthread -liconv -lm -lxml2 -lcairo -lsigc-2.0 -lgthread-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lintl -lpng12 -lpng -lz -lpopt -L/usr/local/lib -lfontconfig -L/usr/local/lib -lpangoft2-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lfreetype -lz -lfontconfig -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lintl -L/usr/local/lib -lfreetype -lz -framework Carbon -lgc -llcms
/usr/bin/ld: warning empty table of contents: jabber_whiteboard/libjabber_whiteboard.a (can't load from it)
/usr/bin/ld: warning empty table of contents: pedro/libpedro.a (can't load from it)
/usr/bin/ld: Undefined symbols:
_XFree
_XGetWindowAttributes
_XGetWindowProperty
_XInternAtom
_XListProperties
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [inkscape] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2
g++ version :
~/Desktop/inkscape-0.46/inkscape-0.46/src $g++ --version
i686-apple-darwin8-g++-4.0.1 (GCC) 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5367)
Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
~/Desktop/inkscape-0.46/inkscape-0.46/src $uname -a
Darwin dimitris-lyrintzis-computer.local 8.11.1 Darwin Kernel Version 8.11.1: Wed Oct 10 18:23:28 PDT 2007; root:xnu-792.25.20~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 i386
Fink users have reported this same error. It started happening when gtk+ was upgraded from 2.12.x to 2.14.x. Apparently older versions of gtk+ published "-lX11" via pkg-config; recent gtk+ no longer publishes that flag (sensibly...it's not required for "things using gtk+" to link against libX11 themselves). Looks like inkscape itself uses libX11 directly, so needs to pass its own explicit linker flag for it.