[Kde-imaging] libkexif problems

[Renchi Raju]

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Jesper K. Pedersen wrote:

> | > Actually the rotate plugin did try to compile, and failed.
> |
> | the rotate plugin will try to compile, since you are compiling it from the
> | same src tree as libkexif. there is no way to check that libkexif has been
> | fully compiled at the configure stage of kipi-plugins. but if you try to
> | do it from different src trees, the rotate plugin will be correctly
> | disabled.
> Couldn't the rotate plugin be disabled with the libkexif plugin?

you mean that, if libexif is not found, disable rotate (jpeglossless)
plugin along with libkexif? unfortunately, no. because, the jpeglossless
plugin depends on libkexif and not directly on libexif. it gets a bit
confusing, so bear with me while i try to explain this:

libexif is usually distributed as two pkgs: libexif, libexif-devel
libkexif is (to be) distributed as one pkg: libkexif

compile time dependency:
libkexif -> libexif-devel
jpeglossless -> libkexif

runtime dependency:
libkexif -> libexif
jpeglossless -> libkexif

since you can have libkexif installed without libexif-devel, its not
possible to disable compilation of the jpeglossless plugin because
libexif-devel is not installed.

renchi