Gaim-Encryption

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at marcuscom.com
Sat Aug 7 00:10:07 PDT 2004


On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 03:08, Joshua Banks wrote:
> --- Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> > > Joe are your running Gaim v0.80 and Gaim-Encryption V2.28 ?
> > 
> > Yep, works just fine.  I use it daily.  Make sure you do not have
> > WITHOUT_NSS defined in your /etc/make.conf, and that Gaim was build
> > with
> > NSS support.
> 
> Dohp... I don't have an /etc/make.conf file present.... no problem.
> 
> Thats really weird that I don't have this file in place. I can figure
> out what needs to be done but what I find really weird is why don't
> they mention the "/etc/make.conf" file before or during Chapter 8 of
> the handbook (Configuring the FreeBSD Kernel). Instead they leave this
> till chapter 19. Seems very important to me especially if I want my
> kernel sources built to my machine/hardware specs. 
> 
> So I've already compiled the Kernel sources, so I'm assuming its
> probably best that after I configure an "/etc/make.conf" file that I
> should recompile my kernel sources again?
> 
> How do I ensure that Gaim is built with NSS Support? I didn't really
> understand where to look or what to do? The MAKE file looks like the
> logical place but I don't know what to do? Is this described in the
> Handbook? If so can you kindly hint too, where..  and I'll do what
> needs to be done.

Not having an /etc/make.conf is okay.  If you don't have WITHOUT_NSS set
in /etc/make.conf or in your environment, then Gaim should be built with
NSS support.  You might try running gaim -d from the command line, and
see if it throws an error trying to load the encryption plug-in.

Joe

> 
> Thanks,
> Joshua Banks
> 
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