Hi
Thank you Adam. That helped a lot! Everything compiles now.
// Daniel
On 2012-06-30 14:50, Adam Dingle wrote:
Daniel,
some distros such as Ubuntu are pre-configured to find libraries in
/usr/local automatically, both at compile time and at run time. On
other distros such as Fedora you have to do some work so that libraries
in /usr/local will be found. I haven't used OpenSUSE, but it looks as
if it may be like Fedora in this respect. (It's baffling to me that
Fedora and others haven't improved this situation, by the way - it would
be really easy for them to do that, and users such as you often get
confused when they build and install libraries locally and they don't
work out of the box.)
Here are the things you might need to do:
1. The XDG_DATA_DIRS environment variable (see
http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html)
needs to contain /usr/local/share. Vala uses this environmen t variable
to know where to look for .pc files. Probably the error message you're
seeing is because Vala can't find gexiv2.pc for this very reason.
2. The PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable needs to contain
/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig. (Ubuntu compiles such a path into the
pkg-config executable rather than setting the environment variable
directly.)
3. You might need to tell the dynamic linker to be able to find
libraries in /usr/local/lib. To do this, you'll need to add
/usr/local/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf or to a file in /etc/ld.so.conf.d,
then run "sudo ldconfig".
Symlinking or copying to /usr/lib64 is not a great idea, in my opinion -
you really want a clean separation between libraries you've built
yourself (in /usr/local) and those installed by the system (in /usr).
At least that's my preference. The right path forward is to get your
system to recognize /usr/local.
adam
On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 12:13 AM, Daniel Eriksson
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi all.
My name is Daniel Eriksson and I'm trying to build Shotwell from
source. I hope to contribute to the project in some way.
I'm using OpenSUSE 12.1. I have built Vala from source from the git
repo. I have also built gexiv2 from source from the git repo and
installed it. Gexiv2 is installed in /usr/local/lib.
My problem is that I get the error message:
error: Package `gexiv2' not found in specified Vala API directories or
GObject-Introspection GIR directories
I have uninstalled the gexiv2 version (v 0.3.1) that came with
OpenSUSE (together with Shotwell 0.11.5). If I use the preinstalled
version of gexiv2 I get the error message
src/photos/PhotoMetadata.vala:131.13-131.75: error: Return: Cannot
convert from `uchar?[]' to `uint8[]'
returnowner.exiv2.get_preview_image(props[number]).get_data();
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
When I search for this error on the web I found the solution to build
gexiv2 from the git repo.
I've been searching the web for a solution and there are several
persons who have had this problem in the past. However none of the
solutions seems to work for me.
One thing I noticed was that the gexiv2 version installed by OpenSUSE
was placed in /usr/lib64 (I use a 64 bit machine). The version that I
build from source and installed is placed under /usr/local/lib (as
stated above).
I tried to symlink the gexiv2 files I built myself to the /usr/lib64
but it did not work. I aslo tried to copy them there without any result.
Any ideas of what's needed to make it compile?
Best regards!
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