Archaic wrote:
While updating my scripts for the latest gnutls (it's been a long while) I went through everything again. libgpg-error doesn't seem to technically be a required dep of gnutls, but it is required for libgcrypt and libgcrypt is required for gnutls (even though the docs make it out to be optional). However, the gaim page also shows libtasn1, which technically isn't needed because libtasn1 (and opencdk, for that matter) are included in the gnutls tarball.
Sure, gnutls builds without libtasn1, but in my experience, if I build gnutls using its internal libtasn1 and then link Gaim to that I get a build of Gaim which can't connect to msn messenger. My kids wanted to be able to chat with their friends on msn, that was why I had to figure out how to install it in the first place. When I wrote the Gaim page I worded it so that people would know what they had to install (and the order that it would need to be installed) if they wanted to be able to connect to msn so that we wouldn't get a stream of people posting about it on BLFS support. It's the same with the mozilla nss libraries. Gaim will compile against them with all the right shared libraries built. It looks good, until we try to connect to msn, and then it doesn't work. In my experience compiling libgpg-error then libgcrypt then libtasn1 then gnutls and the gaim works every time.
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