Fwd: Re: problem compiling pidgin 2.10.10

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at freebsd.org
Tue Nov 25 19:32:15 UTC 2014


On 11/25/14 1:56 PM, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> El día Tuesday, November 25, 2014 a las 10:39:02AM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke escribió:
>
>> On 11/24/14 2:47 PM, Matthias Apitz wrote:
>>>
>>> Please see below, how the problem was solved and what was causing it.
>>>
>>> To Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at freebsd.org>, net-im/pidgin is not facing the
>>> problem because it builds pidgin with --disable-consoleui and due to
>>> this without the finch part.
>>
>> Well, this is because we have a slave port for finch.  However, the
>> "fix" looks like a workaround for when another port is installed.  I
>> don't have the tinfo library in /usr/local/lib.  Can I assume you have a
>> new ncurses installed?
>
> Yes, the shared lib libtinfow.so.5.9 comes on both systems with ncurses
> from the ports.
>
>> Does this patch work with the base OS?
>
> I don't know, perhaps it will not.
>
> We can ignore all this for the port net-im/pidgin if we do not build the
> pidgin/finch.

But does the net-im/finch port build?  I imagine it won't with ncurses 
from ports if this is an issue.

Joe

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