Mysterious(?) errors with dia-0.91

[Filip Miletic <f miletic ewi tudelft nl>]

Greetings everyone.

Could someone offer a piece of advice. I built dia 0.91 from source, 
with --enable-gnome. When the program starts up, the following cryptic 
messages appear. (see below)

As a side issue, when I try to use text tool, the letters come out 
teensy-weensy and there is no way to change the size. They remain 
unreadably small under any size. If I zoom to maximum, glyphs begin to 
appear, but very tiny. May the two problems be related?

Thanking you,
Filip


filip cow:/opt/dia
$ dia
ï      @       ï       ï       ïï:11: error: unexpected identifier 
`new_diagram_bgcolour', expected keyword
ï      @       ï       ï       ïï:11: error: unexpected character `=', 
expected keyword
ï      @       ï       ï       ïï:11: error: unexpected number `1.000', 
expected keyword
ï      @       ï       ï       ïï:11: error: unexpected number `1.000', 
expected keyword
ï      @       ï       ï       ïï:11: error: unexpected number `1.000', 
expected keyword
ï      @       ï       ï       ïï:21: error: unexpected identifier 
`grid_dynamic', expected keyword
ï      @       ï       ï       ïï:21: error: unexpected character `=', 
expected keyword
ï      @       ï       ï       ïï:21: error: unexpected identifier 
`true', expected keyword
ï      @       ï       ï       ïï:25: error: unexpected identifier 
`grid_major', expected keyword
ï      @       ï       ï       ïï:25: error: unexpected character `=', 
expected keyword
ï      @       ï       ï       ïï:25: error: unexpected number `5', 
expected keyword
ï      @       ï       ï       ïï:28: error: unexpected identifier 
`recent_sheet', expected keyword
ï      @       ï       ï       ïï:28: error: unexpected character `=', 
expected keyword
ï      @       ï       ï       ïï:28: error: unexpected number `0', 
expected keyword

filip cow:/opt/dia
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