Is Pidgin (MSN) broken?

Kevin Downey redchin at gmail.com
Fri Feb 29 21:21:02 UTC 2008


On 2/29/08, Lars Stokholm <lars.stokholm at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 6:27 PM, Lars Stokholm <lars.stokholm at gmail.com> wrote:
> > ...or is it just me, getting "SSL support is needed for MSN. Please
> >  install a supported SSL library"? It happened after an update of
> >  gnutls (feb. 28). I don't know if this is a coincidence.
> >
> >  I've tried reinstalling Pidgin. Needless to say, it didn't make a difference.
>
> What I didn't try was to reinstall libpurple. That did the trick.

gnutls had a library version bump recently. many ports won't build
because they have the old library version number in their Makefile.
Pidgin uses gnutls for ssl.


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