problems with gaim 0.71

[Yoav Avitzour]

For some reason I cannot compile with nss. Did you do anything else
other than changing --enable-nss to yes in the BUILD file ?

On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 22:44, Chad Kittel wrote:
> if you hang out in #gaim you will get A LOT of answers answered.  they 
> are 24/7 answering questions about it.  there are actually 2 solutions 
> one ins mozilla-nss (recommended) and the alternative is gnutils.  I got 
> mine to work with mozilla-nss.
> 
> Niki Guldbrand wrote:
> > Hi There.
> > 
> > I have just tried to install gnutls, but I can't get it to build because
> > it doesnt seem to like the libs it depends on...
> > 
> > Well I have added libgpg-error to moonbase, which the new ligcrypt
> > needs, and gnutls needs this new libgcrypt, but gnutls chokes on some
> > openpgp.c file, and there for i have been looking into opencdk which
> > should be some kind of replacement for openpgp, but it won't compile
> > either, so currently we (I) are stuck.
> > 
> > If anyone else would like to play around with gnutls and opencdk, then 
> > the modules is attached.
> > 
> > 
> > Niki
> > 
> > On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 00:13, Yoav Avitzour wrote:
> > 
> >>Actually, there is a fix - from the gaim FAQ:
> >>
> >>Q. I just upgraded Gaim and the MSN plugin will not load. Why? 
> >>A. You did not compile with SSL support. As of protocol version 9, the
> >>MSN protocol requires the use of SSL, which gaim provides by either
> >>GnuTls or the combination of NSS and NSPR from the Mozilla project.
> >>Install one or both of these and recompile Gaim.
> >>
> >>The BUILD file for gaim contains --enable-nss=no, and 
> >>--enable-gnutls=yes. However, it turns out that the configure cannot
> >>find gnutls libraries. Which module supplies them ? 
> >>
> >>btw - compilation with --enable-nss=yes breaks. 
> >>
> >>in the mean time, gaim 0.70 works fine.
> >>
> >>Yoav
> >>
> >>On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 17:32, Moritz Heiber wrote:
> >>
> >>>On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 17:19:22 -0400
> >>>Yoav Avitzour <avitzour at Princeton.EDU> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Not this time ;). This is not a problem with connecting to the msn
> >>>>server, it's a problem WITHIN gaim, which is that gaim is unable to
> >>>>load the plugin library. It appears before gaim even tries to connect
> >>>>to the server.
> >>>
> >>>Yeah, this is a known problem. The "fix" is to just delete the libmsn*
> >>>files from /usr/lib/gaim/ so gaim doesn't load them anymore during it's
> >>>startup. Since I seriously doubt that it would be working correctly at
> >>>this time anyways its not quite a big loss.
> >>>(If its still working you might need to consider reverting to 0.70)
> >>>
> >>>If you depend on your MSN contacts and/or need IM with MSN support you
> >>>will have to find anything else that is endorsed by MS. I recommened
> >>>using another protocol.
> >>>
> >>>Bye,
> >>>
> >>>Moritz
> >>
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