[Digikam-devel] Please tell me how to compile digikam with exiv2 and kdcraw libraries

[Simon A. Eugster]

On 21.05.2010 23:37, Martin Klapetek wrote:
> On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 20:40, Simon A. Eugster <simon.eu
> <http://simon.eu>@gmail.com <http://gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Ah wow. Wtf. Now this completely does not make any sense.
>     At least not for me.
>
>     I solved the problem. By doing:
>
>      > # apt-get install digikam
>      > Paketlisten werden gelesen... Fertig
>      > Abhängigkeitsbaum wird aufgebaut
>      > Status-Informationen einlesen... Fertig
>      > Die folgenden zusätzlichen Pakete werden installiert:
>      >   libkdcraw8
>      > Vorgeschlagene Pakete:
>      >   digikam-doc
>      > Empfohlene Pakete:
>      >   kipi-plugins
>      > Die folgenden NEUEN Pakete werden installiert:
>      >   digikam libkdcraw8
>      > 0 aktualisiert, 2 neu installiert, 0 zu entfernen und 0 nicht
>     aktualisiert.
>      > Es müssen 12.3MB an Archiven heruntergeladen werden.
>      > Nach dieser Operation werden 31.3MB Plattenplatz zusätzlich benutzt.
>      > Möchten Sie fortfahren [J/n]? j
>
>     Even more strange. After removing digikam again, _without_ libkdcraw8,
>     again the same problem. No pictures at all.
>
>     Installed digikam again, everything fine.
>     It is even using the exiv2 libraries I compiled myself.
>
>     Could anyone enlighten me what exactly is going on there?
>
>     thanks in advance,
>     Simon
>
>
> Interesting, I tried to reinstall digikam with yum out of curiosity and
> it indeed started working after that (the svn version). But I
> reinstalled *only* digiKam, not the libs etc. Also Fedora has 1.2.0
> package. Well, now I'm really wondering, what extra things the yum did
> in the process :)

lol. Is there any way to find out the reason?

Simon