How to get svg support working in gentoo?

[Alexander Toresson]

On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 9:18 PM, Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com> wrote:
> Can anybody loan me a hint on how to get SVG support to work?
>
> I just rebuilt panel and desktop after verifying that both
> libsvg and librsvg were installed.  Gtk/gdk seems to know about
> svg:
>
>   $ grep -B3 -A3 -i svg /etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders
>   "\n\004\001" "" 100
>   "\n\005\001" "" 100
>
>   "/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/svg_loader.so"
>   "svg" 2 "gtk20" "Scalable Vector Graphics"
>   "image/svg+xml" "image/svg" "image/svg-xml" "image/vnd.adobe.svg+xml" "text/xml-svg" "image/svg+xml-compressed" ""
>   "svg" "svgz" "svg.gz" ""
>   " <svg" "*    " 100
>   " <!DOCTYPE svg" "*             " 100
>
>   "/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-tiff.so"
>   "tiff" 1 "gtk20" "The TIFF image format"
>
> But when I select an .svg icon for use in the panel, nothing shows up.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> --
> Grant
>

Does /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/svg_loader.so exist and does
running ldd on it produce 0 errors?

// Alexander