Everything built without incident, yet no plugins in either app.

David, have you built kipi-plugins? Would you check your digikam and gwenview? In digikam you'll see a fully populated Export menu and in gwenview a fully populated Plugins menu.

Also, when starting digikam for the first time, such as in a new profile (or deleting all profile config files), digikam gets stuck trying to create the database, complaining of file permissions. I'm willing to overlook that at the moment because all of the above could be related to libkipi or kipi-plugins building incorrectly.

Darrell