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tatsu
Asked: 2019-05-24 05:00:21 +0800 CST

Manually installed exiv not found during meson build in Ubuntu 19.04

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Can anyone explain the following?

user@system:~/gexiv2-0.11.0/build$ exiv2 --version

exiv2 0.27.1

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user@system:~/gexiv2-0.11.0/build$ meson --prefix=/usr ..

The Meson build system
Version: 0.49.0
Source dir: /home/user/gexiv2-0.11.0
Build dir: /home/user/gexiv2-0.11.0/build
Build type: native build
Project name: gexiv2
Project version: 0.11.0
Native C compiler: cc (gcc 8.3.0 "cc (Ubuntu 8.3.0-6ubuntu1) 8.3.0")
Native C++ compiler: c++ (gcc 8.3.0 "c++ (Ubuntu 8.3.0-6ubuntu1) 8.3.0")
Build machine cpu family: x86_64
Build machine cpu: x86_64
Found pkg-config: /usr/bin/pkg-config (0.29.1)
Found CMake: /usr/bin/cmake (3.13.4)
Dependency exiv2 found: NO (tried pkgconfig)

meson.build:13:0: ERROR:  Dependency "exiv2" not found, tried pkgconfig

A full log can be found at /home/user/gexiv2-0.11.0/build/meson-logs/meson-log.txt

given that exiv2 version 0.27 does not exist for Ubuntu in general (it stops at v0.25).

I did the following:

  1. I went to the exiv website
  2. I grabbed the link for the linux build of exiv 0.27

  3. I ran the following

    wget https://www.exiv2.org/builds/exiv2-0.27.1-Linux64.tar.gz
sudo tar xzf exiv2-0.27.1-Linux64.tar.gz -C /usr/local/lib/
sudo nano /etc/environment

  4. added :/usr/local/lib/exiv2-0.27.1-Linux64/bin

  5. source /etc/environment
  6. restarted the terminal.

and then exiv is correctly usable.

But meson does not detect it is there during the build.

To be clear: the package gexiv2 Version 0.10.9 shipped for Ubuntu 19.04 is inferior to my needed version of 0.11.0 at least.

software-installation compiling dependencies

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I found what was wrong - you have downloaded binary version of Exiv2, but really you need source version with corresponding headers and development files.

    So the complete steps will be the following:

    exiv2 part

    sudo apt-get install cmake meson
sudo apt-get build-dep exiv2

cd ~/Downloads
wget https://www.exiv2.org/builds/exiv2-0.27.1-Source.tar.gz
tar -xf exiv2-0.27.1-Source.tar.gz
cd exiv2-0.27.1-Source/
cmake .
make
sudo make install

    Check:

    $ exiv2 --version | head -n1
exiv2 0.27.1

    gexiv2 part

    sudo apt-get build-dep libgexiv2-dev
cd ~/Downloads
wget http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gexiv2/0.11/gexiv2-0.11.0.tar.xz
tar -xf gexiv2-0.11.0.tar.xz
cd gexiv2-0.11.0/
meson build
cd build
sudo meson install

    and so on.

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