Exiv2

h1. 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 build-dir is _~/gnu/exiv2_

# Install some of the basic utilities

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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

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# 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_)

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sudo yum-builddep -y exiv2

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# Fetch the source code:

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mkdir -p ~/gnu/exiv2

cd ~/gnu/exiv2

svn checkout svn://dev.exiv2.org/svn/trunk

cd trunk

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# Start building exiv2

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make config

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

make

sudo make install

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# Building samples

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export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig

make samples

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# Building tests.

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

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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

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** Running tests requires one additional package:

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sudo yum install -y dos2unix

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** Finally:

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cd ~/gnu/exiv2/trunk

make tests

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