Re: exif library not found

Samuli Ronkanen <[email protected]> Mon, 02 Feb 2004 20:25:24 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.picfolio.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>Does `picfolio -V` say that you have EXIF support? If so, there are a
>few more things to try out.
>
>Can you confirm that your images really do have EXIF tags? There are a
>few tools that could do this, the latest development version of gqview,
>for example.
>
>Keep in mind, that some editors will drop EXIF tags. For example, if you
>rotate an image in Gimp, and then save the file, you will loose your
>EXIF tags.
>
>You can also run picfolio with the --save-xml flag, and then examine the
>generated XML files. You should see the EXIF tags in those XML files.
>
>If you still can't get this to work, feel free to email me a picture
>that you think has EXIF tags, and I can try to extract those tags and
>tell you what I see.
>
>  
>
[romu@romu kuvia]$ picfolio -V
Picfolio Version: 0.3.1
CVS Version Data: 0.3.1 (REL-0_3_1)
Graphics Support: pnmscale and libjpeg tools
    EXIF Support: No

So apparently something is wrong with the library installation. I have 
confirmed that there are exif information left in the pictures, with 
gqview and some other programs also.

The library was first installed with Mandrake tool urpmi, and then 
compiled from the source. I guess that I'll try to study pkg-config to 
understand what's wrong. My imagination cant help me with this problem, 
too little experience. This is where lot of people stop when they try to 
play with Linux. But Picfolio is such a killer app that I'll go on, for 
a while at least.