[Digikam-devel] compile problems for digikam

[Arnd Baecker]

Hi,

it seems that people really struggle hard installing digikam from svn.
This is, from my point of view, a substantial problem,
preventing possible contributors from even getting started.
It also prevents people from trying out current svn to
see if bugs got fixed; many just wait until
packages exist for their system ...

Most likely, there are many users which tried, failed,
and never reported back to us!

Needless to say, that such problems have wasted
already several hours, both on the users side and
on the side of the digikam team .... ;-)

Gilles, Marcel and everyone else:
is there something which can be done to improve the situation?

The main problems which seem to occur are
(Not that the following is not written with any understanding/knowledge,
but just an attempt at a summary):
A) Different libexiv2 on the system seem to cause problems.
   I just don't understand why?
   If they are at separate places, and the paths are
   set correctly, this should do no harm at all.
B) The same with kexiv2, kdcraw, it seems
   (not sure about libkipi, kipi-plugins)?
C) kioslave might not always be updated
   (i.e. kdeinit or kbuildsycoca  might be needed)

Is it possible to solve any of these issues?

One simple diagnostic tool might be to print out
the compile date  and time + svn revision + version
of the pieces involved?
(Would this be possible?)

Are there better approaches?

Best, Arnd