While the patch allows to compile Inkscape with poppler >= 0.12.2 apparently there have been other changes in poppler 0.12.2 that now cause Inkscape to crash when importing certain PDF files, as was recently reported in bug #258504 “PDF import: crash in PopplerCache::lookup() with poppler >= 0.12.2” <https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/258504>
While the patch allows to compile Inkscape with poppler >= 0.12.2 apparently there have been other changes in poppler 0.12.2 that now cause Inkscape to crash when importing certain PDF files, as was recently reported in bug #258504 “PDF import: crash in PopplerCache: :lookup( ) with poppler >= 0.12.2” <https:/ /bugs.launchpad .net/inkscape/ +bug/258504>