[Digikam-devel] [Bug 166867] Digikam crashes when starting

[Arnd Baecker]

On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Jasper Aorangi wrote:

>
>
> 8~) wrote:
> >
> > To me it seems that the crash is happening inside exiv2.
> > Which version of exiv2 are you using (See "About digikam" menu)?
> > If it is not 0.17.1, please try that one).
> >
> > I have re-installed kipi-plugins version 0.1.5 and now digikam works fine
> > !!
> >
> > i have the following version of :
> > exiv2 : 0.17.1
> > kexiv2 : 0.1.7
> >
> >
>
> Strangely digikam crashes with exiv2 17.19 from svn, and not 17.1 from
> debian.

exiv2 from svn is a major rewrite compared to 0.17.1,
so this is not completely unexpected, see here
http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/exiv2/message/1237?var=1&l=1
for mor information.
If you could provide a full backtrace for the crash, this
could help Andreas (exiv2 author) to fix this issue.


>  Also the dependancies for the kipi plugins are still in the individual
> plugin folders, as kipiplugins have been merged into digikam surely the
> dependancies should be listed in the README in digikam root folder (i.e
> exiv2 = 17.1 etc)

digikam now uses exiv2 only indirectly via libkexiv2, where
libexiv2   >= 0.13  (0.17.1 recommended) http://www.exiv2.org
is mentioned in the dependencies.

Gilles, what do you think, should we require:
  libexiv2   = 0.17.1
or is this too strict?

I am not sure about the kipiplugins stuff -
what should be changed where?

Best, Arnd