Issues with latest version of inkscape on 8.0-BETA4

[Koop Mast]

On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 12:55 +0200, Romain Tartière wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 09:12:23AM +0530, Ashish SHUKLA wrote:
> > I've installed graphics/inkscape port few hours ago. And after running it for
> > the first time, I got following error messages on my xterm:
> > 
> > #v+
> > % uname -a
> > FreeBSD chateau.d.if 8.0-BETA4 FreeBSD 8.0-BETA4 #0: Sun Sep  6 04:44:31 UTC 2009     root at mason.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
> > % inkscape
> > /usr/local/share/inkscape/extensions/render_barcode.inx:1: parser error : XML declaration allowed only at the start of the document
> > <?xml version="1.0"?>
> >      ^
> > 
> > ** (inkscape:22071): CRITICAL **: Inkscape::Extension::Extension* Inkscape::Extension::build_from_reprdoc(Inkscape::XML::Document*, Inkscape::Extension::Implementation::Implementation*): assertion `doc != NULL' failed
> > 
> > ** (inkscape:22071): WARNING **: Unable to create extension from definition file /usr/local/share/inkscape/extensions/render_barcode.inx.
> > 
> > /usr/local/share/inkscape/templates/default.svg:1: parser error : XML declaration allowed only at the start of the document
> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
> >      ^
> > 
> > ** (inkscape:22071): CRITICAL **: SPDesktop* sp_file_new(const Glib::ustring&): assertion `doc != NULL' failed
> > #v-
> > 
> > No inkscape window appeared on the desktop during this, so I've to kill the
> > process using C-c.
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > libxml2-2.7.4
> 
> It's broken... Infos and patch (not tested) in the git repository of libxml2:
> http://git.gnome.org/cgit/libxml2/commit/?id=9d3d141c412baa5c713ad3df48f1a4d179e07b05
> 
> 
This should be fixed in 2.7.4_1. Thanks for the git pointer.

-Koop