Bug 374409 – media-gfx/shotwell doesn't compile with newer libraw versions

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Benedikt Reinartz 2011-07-08 06:46:10 UTC]

When trying to emerge shotwell I get

"Package libraw not found"

although it's installed. After poking through shotwells (bad) build system I found out, that they're using some kind of pkg-config-replacement for libraw, which only looks for "libraw.a". This one does not exist at least for libraw-0.13.6.

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Benedikt Reinartz 2011-07-08 06:47:43 UTC]

Created attachment 279405 [details]
Patches libraw_config to look for libraw.so instead of libraw.a

With this patch I can emerge shotwell again \o/

[Comment 2 Tim Harder 2011-07-09 04:54:38 UTC]

Yep, I added the static-libs use flag to libraw-0.13.6 so the static library isn't installed by default anymore.

[Comment 3 Tim Harder 2011-07-09 05:05:06 UTC]

However, your patch shouldn't be necessary since libraw should still install the pkgconfig files which are checked by libraw-config before trying the static archives. At least it appears to work that way for me.

[Comment 4 Tim Harder 2011-07-09 05:34:43 UTC]

Nevermind, I see what's happening; however, it would probably be better to patch the makefile to directly use the libraw pkgconfig files.

[Comment 5 Christoph Mende (RETIRED) 2011-07-09 08:49:01 UTC]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Nevermind, I see what's happening; however, it would probably be better to
> patch the makefile to directly use the libraw pkgconfig files.

I don't see what's happening, afaict the patched part should never be used, because the first two checks are already true. So why does it even try to check libraw_r.a?

[Comment 6 Tim Harder 2011-07-09 20:41:55 UTC]

Created attachment 279537 [details, diff]
libraw-config patch

This patch should help clear things up. :)

[Comment 7 Christoph Mende (RETIRED) 2011-07-09 21:40:10 UTC]

Indeed, thanks for the patch, applied it.