Want to install exiv2 v 0.24

[PierreDeQuebec]

Hello,

Compiling Digikam 4.5.0 requires exiv2 version 0.24. Or, Kubuntu uses version 0.23. I compiled the 0.24 version and it is installed in / usr / local / ... How to make the compilation uses the 0.24 release?


Thank you for your help

Pierre

[claydoh]

When running cmake, there is probably a switch to point it to /usr/local, but I am not sure if you can do so for individual libraries and other deps. The standard for us is /usr

But...........
14.10 sure does have 0.24 already

us@gus-Latitude-D830:~$ apt-cache policy exiv2
exiv2:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 0.24-2ubuntu1
  Version table:
     0.24-2ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ utopic/universe amd64 Packages

Do you have the related -dev package(s) installed?
One way to get a majority, if not all of build dependencies installed is to issue:
sudo apt-get build-dep digikam

And run cmake similar to this:
cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr

[PierreDeQuebec]

Claydoh thank you for the quick response.

Configuration for compiling Digikam through a script called bootstrap.linux. This seems to replace the traditional ./configure. The compile error comes from bootstrap.linux script.

- Starting CMake configuration for: libkexiv2
- Could NOT find Exiv2: Found Unsuitable Version "0.23.0" purpose is required at least "0.24" (found /usr/lib/libexiv2.so)

Maybe I should change a variable in one of the cmake files to instruct the precompiler where to find the correct version of exiv2? But I do not know how.

[claydoh]

You are on 14.10 Utopic, correct?
If not, you could just uninstall the stock libexiv2 and exiv2 things, and try rebuilding the library, but using /usr as the config/install path when compiling.

I don't know the bootstrap script, other than it is calling cmake, but without looking at it I might suggest asking the digikam folks how to adjust paths if you want to use a custom libexiv path.