[Tilesathome] [Fwd: Problems with debian packages]

[niubii]

I've just sent this message to the mantainers, but forgive to put the 
list in cc.
/niubii/

-------- Messaggio Originale --------
Oggetto: 	Problems with debian packages
Data: 	Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:43:39 +0200
Da: 	Francesco Pelullo <niubii69 at gmail.com>
A: 	rmurray at debian.org
CC: 	wolfi at mittelerde.physik.uni-konstanz.de



Hi,

I'm writing this email for report a problem that concerns inkscape but
depends by libgc1c2 and libgc-dev packages.
At the present I'm running debian lenny amd-64 with 4GB RAM, but the
problem seem involves various architectures and RAM sizes.

I'm trying to run a script within the "Tiles at Home" project (refer to
http://tah.openstreetmap.org).
This script is needed for render the Openstreetmap data; a core
element of the script is inkscape.

At the present, inkscape crashes when the "tile" to render is too big.
It's very hard to find a workaround, because the "tiles" have a
predefined size and could not easily splitted.

The errorcode provided by inkscape is:

    Too many heap sections: Increase MAXHINCR or MAX_HEAP_SECTS

Someone in the t at h mailling list has found a workaround: compile by
itself the three packages above (libgc1c2, libgc-dev and inkscape),
enabling the large config.
(refer to http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tilesathome/2008-February/001835.html)

This could be easily obtained, but require that anyone likes to
contribute at the tiles at home project needs to recompile... perhaps
it's not so easy to obtain.

My question is: it's possible to provide these precompiled debian
packages with a large config already enabled?
It seem not too stupid to me, since the personal computers have now a
quantity of RAM that is 2GB or above.

Please help us if possible.
Thanks in advantage.

/niubii/