The libexif package contains a library for parsing, editing, and saving EXIF data. Most digital cameras produce EXIF files, which are JPEG files with extra tags that contain information about the image. All EXIF tags described in EXIF standard 2.1 are supported.
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-10.1 platform.
Download (HTTP): https://github.com/libexif/libexif/releases/download/libexif-0_6_22-release/libexif-0.6.22.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 1070601438443fdd5b8635565693cf99
Download size: 1.3 MB
Estimated disk space required: 21 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU
Doxygen-1.9.1 and Graphviz-2.47.0
User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libexif
First, apply a patch to fix a security issue (integer overflow leading to Out Of Buffer write):
patch -Np1 -i ../libexif-0.6.22-security_fixes-1.patch
Install libexif by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr \
--disable-static \
--with-doc-dir=/usr/share/doc/libexif-0.6.22 &&
make
To test the results, issue: make check.
Now, as the root user:
make install
Documentation was built and installed if you have the dependencies
shown above installed. If you don't have the dependencies
installed, there is a compressed tarball in the source tree
doc directory that can be unpacked
into /usr/share/doc/libexif-0.6.22.
--disable-static: This
switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.
Last updated on 2021-02-21 17:09:04 -0600