gaim or aim on 5.4 amd64 ?

[Kövesdán Gábor]

Bill Schoolcraft wrote:

>Hello Family,
>
>I'm trying to get either GAIM or AIM to work on my 5.4 "amd64" to no
>avail.  It works on my 5.4 "i386" and I was wondering if anyone can
>help, here is my "ports" failure message for GAIM.  AIM reports only
>being ported to i386.
>
>#####################
>
>[root at liam /usr/ports/net/gaim]-> make install clean
>
>===>  gaim-1.2.1 has known vulnerabilities:
>=> gaim -- Yahoo! remote crash vulnerability.
>   Reference:
><http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/portaudit/2701611f-df5c-11d9-b875-0001020eed82.html>
>=> gaim -- MSN Remote DoS vulnerability.
>   Reference:
><http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/portaudit/b6612eee-df5f-11d9-b875-0001020eed82.html>
>=> gaim -- MSN remote DoS vulnerability.
>   Reference:
><http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/portaudit/ad5e70bb-c429-11d9-ac59-02061b08fc24.html>
>=> gaim -- remote crash on some protocols.
>   Reference:
><http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/portaudit/889061af-c427-11d9-ac59-02061b08fc24.html>
>=> Please update your ports tree and try again.
>*** Error code 1
>
>Stop in /usr/ports/net/gaim.
>
>#####################
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>  
>
It isn't a compiling error. There is a tool called portaudit, which 
checks the ports against security vulnerabilities, and gaim 1.2.1 has 
some security issues, thus portaudit prevents You from installing it. Is 
your ports tree up-to-date? I don't think so. Gaim 1.2.1 is pretty old. 
Upgrade yout ports tree via cvsup and try again. If the new version has 
security issues, too, You could decide to configure portaudit to ignore 
this problem.

Cheers,

Gábor Kövesdán