gexiv2 is a GObject-based wrapper around the Exiv2 library.
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Development versions of BLFS may not build or run some packages properly if dependencies have been updated since the most recent stable versions of the book.
Download (HTTP): https://download.gnome.org/sources/gexiv2/0.14/gexiv2-0.14.1.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gnome/sources/gexiv2/0.14/gexiv2-0.14.1.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: b4a7b5e0f2e50a8d295bb2782e071a7f
Download size: 379 KB
Estimated disk space required: 3.7 MB (with tests)
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU (with parallelism=4 and tests)
Required patch to build against exiv2-0.28 and above: https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/svn/gexiv2-0.14.1-exiv_0_28-1.patch
GTK-Doc-1.33.2 (for documentation)
User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gexiv2
FIrst apply some fixes allowing to build against exiv2-0.28 and above:
patch -Np1 -i ../gexiv2-0.14.1-exiv_0_28-1.patch
Install gexiv2 by running the following commands:
mkdir build && cd build && meson setup --prefix=/usr --buildtype=release .. && ninja
To test the results, run:
meson configure -Dtests=true && ninja test
As the root user:
ninja install
--buildtype=release:
Specify a buildtype suitable for stable releases of the package, as
the default may produce unoptimized binaries.