[Digikam-devel] building from GIT source

[Bruce Korb]

On 09/25/15 10:11, Gilles Caulier wrote:
 > ... install the Exiv2 development package which contain header files required to compile the libkexiv2 library.

 > $ rpm -q -a|fgrep -i exiv2
 > libexiv2-14-0.25-67.1.x86_64
 > libexiv2-12-0.23-9.1.3.x86_64
 > exiv2-lang-0.25-67.1.noarch
 > libexiv2-devel-0.23-9.1.3.x86_64
 > exiv2-0.25-67.1.x86_64
 > libkexiv2-devel-4.11.5-298.1.x86_64
 > libkexiv2-11-4.11.5-298.1.x86_64

I believe I do have libexiv2-devel installed.  libkexiv2-devel to boot.
The "do you have it" configuration test is deficient in some way.
Perhaps it presumes that it has been built from source and the
source installs something that is not included in the package?
I would not know.

 > Gilles Caulier
 >     Hi Gilles,

 >     To get started, I thought I'd build the current repo, but there's a problem:
 >
 >     -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 >     -- The following REQUIRED packages could NOT be located on your system.
 >     -- You must install these packages before continuing.
 >     -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 >         * Exiv2 (0.24 or higher)  <http://www.exiv2.org>
 >           Required to build libkexiv2.
 >
 >     the problem is [that] the bootstrap does not detect that I have the library.