On 06/10/2013 01:05, intrigeri wrote:
> intrigeri wrote (12 Aug 2013 16:47:49 GMT) :
>> jvoisin wrote (12 Aug 2013 14:57:57 GMT) :
>>> I pushed a patch which should improve this behaviour, and hopefully fix
>>> (as a side effect) this problem.
>
>> May you please point us to this patch, so that the bug reporter can
>> try and see if this fixes his problem?
>
> From my (very) quick glance at the exiftool source code, it seems that
> it runs perldoc iff. it wasn't called with a correct syntax. So,
> perhaps the test suite calls exiftool in an improper way?
I think that Michael's bug is triggered by my exiftool's existence
checking (MAT uses exiftool if installed). To do so, MAT calls exiftool,
and if this call fails, it assumes that exiftool is not installed.
I cleaned up this process a little bit, but I don't get why it was
running in background.
> Either way, Julien, it still would be good to know the commit ID of
> the patch you were referring to, so that Michael can try and confirm
> it does fix the build issue he has been experiencing.
Here is the commit number: d319eb2fa5790e2cd2d08cbf9adf2ea90ab6641d
and the repo is
https://git.torproject.org/user/jvoisin/mat.git (as said
by intrigeri).
