Building Exiv2 on Fedora using Automake¶

• This has been tested on Fedora20 64 and 32 bit minimal installations.
• Last revision on which this method was tested: r3288
• This wiki page assumes that installation prefix is /usr/local and your bulidir is ~/gnu/exiv2

1. Install some of the basic utilities
   

   sudo yum install -y subversion make autoconf gcc-c++ yum-utils pkgconfig clang #clang is required only if you wish to use it as the compiler instead of gcc
   

2. Install all the dependencies for building exiv2. (Since exiv2 is already available in the Fedora repositories, this python script makes things easy and is provided by the package yum-utils)
   

   sudo yum-builddep -y exiv2
   

3. Fetch the source code:
   

   mkdir -p ~/gnu/exiv2
   cd ~/gnu/exiv2
   svn checkout svn://dev.exiv2.org/svn/trunk
   cd trunk
   

4. Start building exiv2
   

   make config
   ./configure #if you are using clang, then do: ./configure CC=clang CXX=clang++
   make
   sudo make install
   

5. Building samples
   

   export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
   make samples
   

6. Building tests.
   • Optional: Since exifprobe is not available in standard fedora repositories, some tests will get skipped. If you don't want that:
     

     cd ~/gnu
     sudo yum install -y git
     git clone https://github.com/hfiguiere/exifprobe.git
     cd exifprobe
     make
     sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/man/man1
     sudo make install
     

   • Running tests requires one additional package:
     

     sudo yum install -y dos2unix
     

   • Finally:
     

     cd ~/gnu/exiv2/trunk
     make tests