[Digikam-users] first attempt with svn - one more Q.

[Gilles Caulier]

On Tuesday 16 May 2006 10:04 am, Daniel Bauer wrote:
> Am Montag, 15. Mai 2006 22:48 schrieb Caulier Gilles:
> > thanks Daniel !
> >
> > Unforget to update source from svn reguliary. We working all day into
> > digiKam.
>
> thanks for pointing this out. Sorry for another newbie-question then:
>
> On your website I read:
> "To Update the SVN copy later simply give this command from the directory
> above the digikam folder :
> # svn up digkam"
>
> on my PC the source-code (graphics and libs directory) are
> in /eigene/rpms-progs/digikam_svn, the install in /opt/digikam-svn
>
> is "the directory above the digikam folder" on my PC now
> /eigene/rpms-progs/ or
>  /opt/
> ???

svn is a source code repository. You need to checkout the code where is your 
local copy : /eigene/rpms-progs/digikam_svn

>
> and: after "svn up digkam", do I have to do
>
> # make -f Makefile.cvs
> # ./configure (+my prefix)
> # make
> # make install
>
> every time?
> Or is it already done with "svn up digkam"?

When you make a fresh checkout, you need to recompile and install digikam and 
DigikamImagePlugins. Normally, you jest nedd to do :

# make
# make install

But sometimes, when some new implementation file have been added to svn, you 
need to rebuild all from scratch, like this :

# make distclean
# make -f Makefile.cvs
# ./configure (+my prefix)
# make
# make install

Using this way can take a while, but like this you prevent all binary 
uncompatibilty with all previous compilation. This is require because digikam 
isn't yet frozen about features (not yet beta1), but in a near future, the 
implementation will be stabilized (:=)))

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Have you take a look about new Black & white converter. This tool have been 
the subject of long dicussions with you in the past about possible 
optimizations... Do you remember ?

Like i'm a big fan of B&W pictures (I have learn photography with Ilford HP5+ 
analog film and my Dynax 700si camera), i would like to have a plain feedback 
from a pro-photographer (:=)))

A nice day

Gilles