[Pkg-kde-extras] Bug#690102: exiv2: "Failed to open the file" error on CIFS mounts

[Isaac Bennetch]

Package: exiv2
Version: 0.20-2
Severity: normal

Hi,

When using exiv2 to add, display, or edit metadata for a file that resides on an CIFS
mount, the program exits with the error message "Failed to open the file".

This seems to be a known situation which can be resolved by doing an
export CPPFLAGS=-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
before configure during compilation.

Indeed that fixed the problem on my system. A bit of technical explination can be
found at [1] and additional discussion at [2] and [3].

Regards

1 - https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/24808?opened=4276&status[0]=
2 - http://dev.exiv2.org/boards/3/topics/930
3 - http://dev.exiv2.org/boards/3/topics/983

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.6
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages exiv2 depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.11.3-4   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libexiv2-9                    0.20-2     EXIF/IPTC metadata manipulation li
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.4.5-8  GCC support library
ii  libstdc++6                    4.4.5-8    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

exiv2 recommends no packages.

exiv2 suggests no packages.

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