Opened 19 years ago
Closed 19 years ago
#484 closed defect (fixed)
mythplugins configure bug
| Reported by: | Owned by: | Isaac Richards | |
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| Priority: | minor | Milestone: | unknown |
| Component: | mythgallery | Version: | head |
| Severity: | medium | Keywords: | mythplugins configure mac |
| Cc: | Ticket locked: | no |
Description
The configure script for mythplugins assumes that pkg-config is available which it is not by default on all platforms. This is true on Mac OS X and breaks exif support for mythgallery if libexif > 0.6.9 is used. Is there an alternate way to test for the version of libexif that is not dependent on pkg-config? A platform independent way to determine the lib version would be the best fix. pkg-config is used on line 655 in the configure script.
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Change History (6)
comment:1 Changed 19 years ago by
| Component: | mythtv → mythgallery |
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comment:2 Changed 19 years ago by
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | new → closed |
comment:3 Changed 19 years ago by
| Resolution: | fixed |
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| Status: | closed → reopened |
I have come up with (in my opinion) a more elegant fix to this problem. I have added --use-new-libexif as a configure option so that people don't have to add defines to header files manually. This version still prints out a warning if pkg-config is not found and --use-new-libexif is not specified. Please see the attached patch and let me know if I need to make any changes. I prefer using this version of the fix because when using automated build scripts (such as osx-packager.pl) it is much easier to specify a configure option. If / when this patch is accepted, I have a corresponding patch for osx-packager.pl
Changed 19 years ago by
| Attachment: | configure_libexif.patch added |
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--use-new-libexif configure patch
comment:4 Changed 19 years ago by
This may be better, but I'd prefer if you found a way to detect the package version without using pkg-config. Even if it is just by trying whatever OS X uses for version management.
(In [7526]) Closes #484 by testing for pkg-config before trying to use it.
If it is not present, we print a warning about not being able to determine the version of libexif.