I have gcc, make, etc, installed, but I get:
ld: crt1.o: No such file

I have not been able to find a package that supplies this.

Perhaps I could get glibc-sources and build glibc, but seems to me this should be available as a package.

I see that others have been able to do compiles, so I assume it is just a matter of finding and installing the right packages,

I am using antiX-M7 with apt-get update;apt-get upgrade as of today.

apt-get install build-essential

This should give you everything you need to compile packages.

eriefisher

From the description, I thought build-essential was just stuff for making DEB packages, but it seems to pull in the other stuff I need. Now, I am working on other dependencies to get Inkscape 0.46 built.

Inkscape-0.46-1 is in the sid repos if you want to enable them.

eriefisher