[Shotwell] Building shotwell from trunk

[Bengt Thuree]

Or specify the prefix parameter and install in ~/unstable/shotwell ....

On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 12:24 +0100, Bruno Girin wrote:
> David,
> 
> As Mattias pointed out, you need to be root to run make install, so on
> Ubuntu, you would do:
> 
> $ make
> $ sudo make install
> 
> Everything is installed in /usr/local so is completely separate from
> what is installed through apt-get or Synaptic. I've got it working fine
> on my Lucid laptop.
> 
> Bruno
> 
> On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 11:44 +0300, Mattias Põldaru wrote:
> > Sorry, I was wrong here, as I did not read your letter thoroughly.
> > 
> > You definitely need to run make install with sudo, since it has to
> > install to system directories, where user cannot write to.
> > 
> > Actually in the install instructions there is written "# make install",
> > where # refers to a command which needs to be run as root (or with
> > sudo), as opposed to $ which refers to a ordinary user.
> > 
> > 
> > Mattias
> > 
> > 
> > Ühel kenal päeval, R, 2010-06-04 kell 02:11, kirjutas David Velazquez:
> > > Hey, I have exiv2, libexiv2-6, and libexiv2-dev already installed. Try
> > > as I might I can't seem to get shotwell to complain about anything
> > > other than gexiv2 which, according to the output, should have been
> > > compiled properly.
> > > 
> > > The only thing apt-get build-dep shotwell wants to install is
> > > libhal-dev which is no longer needed when building from trunk. I have
> > > libgudev which replaces it though.
> > > 
> > > Thanks for the tips.
> > > 
> > > On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 1:37 AM, Mattias Põldaru <mahfiaz at gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >         To build you need header files, which are in *-dev packages.
> > >         Install
> > >         libexiv2-dev and see if this makes shotwell compile (or
> > >         complain about
> > >         another dependency).
> > >         If you hit another dependency apt-get search exiv (or whatever
> > >         it
> > >         complains about) and install corresponding package.
> > >         
> > >         All dependencies for the version in repository can be
> > >         installed with
> > >         apt-get build-dep packagename
> > >         
> > >         http://yorba.org/shotwell/install/
> > >         
> > >         
> > >         Mattias
> > >         
> > >         
> > >         Ühel kenal päeval, R, 2010-06-04 kell 01:18, kirjutas David
> > >         Velazquez: 
> > >         
> > >         > I'm confident I'm doing something simple wrong, somewhere,
> > >         but I can't seem
> > >         > to build shotwell from trunk in Lucid
> > >         >
> > >         > Right now it's saying that it can't find gexiv2 and
> > >         suggesting I change the
> > >         > PKG_CONFIG_PATH.
> > >         >
> > >         > I understand gexiv2 needed to be built from scratch as well
> > >         so I pulled it
> > >         > and compiled it in ~/shotwell/gexiv2 using:
> > >         >
> > >         >  ./configure --prefix=/home/dave/shotwell/gexiv2
> > >         > make
> > >         > make install
> > >         >
> > >         > The only error I get from gexiv2 occurs during make install
> > >         and is this:
> > >         >
> > >         > /sbin/ldconfig.real: Can't create temporary cache
> > >         file /etc/ld.so.cache~:
> > >         > Permission denied
> > >         > make: [install] Error 1 (ignored)
> > >         >
> > >         > I assume this is due to me not using sudo and it not being
> > >         able to write to
> > >         > /etc/ld.so.cache
> > >         > Is this enough to prevent gexiv2 from building properly and
> > >         therefore
> > >         > shotwell from using it?
> > >         >
> > >         >
> > >         > Shotwell itself is being built (or attempting to be built)
> > >         in ~/shotwell
> > >         > using the command ./configure --prefix=/home/dave/shotwell
> > >         >
> > >         > The dependencies for gexiv2 (exiv2,libexiv2,libexiv2-dev)
> > >         were installed
> > >         > from Ubuntu's repositories.
> > >         >
> > >         > I've tried moving the installation for gexiv2 to someplace
> > >         outside of
> > >         > ~/shotwell to no avail.
> > >         >
> > >         > I'd appreciate any help.
> > >         >
> > >         > Dave
> > >         
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