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Old 02-22-2011, 06:35 AM   #1
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installing pidgin 2.7.10

Been a slackware user for over a year now and this is the first time I've run into this exact little problem. Pidgin's most current version in the official repository is 2.7.9, and I want to upgrade to it's latest version (2.7.10). There is no slackbuild for it on slacky.eu or slackbuilds org, the official repo hasn't added .10 in the week that its been out so I'm not holding my breath on an update anytime soon. I suppose I 'could' install it the old fashioned way (make/make install/etc), but I'm not sure what kind of effect this would have on the current installation, or if it would break itself or whatever.

Is there a way to get pidgin 2.7.10 installed without having to do it this way?
 
Old 02-22-2011, 06:40 AM   #2
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Grab Pat V's SlackBuild script from the source directories and use it to compile 2.7.10.
 
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Old 02-22-2011, 06:46 AM   #3
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Go here and download the Slackbuild, and other files as needed:

ftp://slackware.oregonstate.edu/pub/...ce/xap/pidgin/

Just modify to suit your build.
 
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Old 02-22-2011, 07:28 AM   #4
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did this but the compilation gives errors.
Code:
/usr/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so.0: undefined reference to `xmlFindCharEncodingHandler@LIBXML2_2.4.30'
/usr/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so.0: undefined reference to `xmlParseFile@LIBXML2_2.4.30'
/usr/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so.0: undefined reference to `xmlNewDocNode@LIBXML2_2.4.30'
/usr/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so.0: undefined reference to `xmlSaveFormatFileTo@LIBXML2_2.4.30'
/usr/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so.0: undefined reference to `xmlNewChild@LIBXML2_2.4.30'
/usr/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so.0: undefined reference to `xmlDocGetRootElement@LIBXML2_2.4.30'
/usr/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so.0: undefined reference to `xmlParseMemory@LIBXML2_2.4.30'
/usr/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so.0: undefined reference to `xmlNewNs@LIBXML2_2.4.30'
/usr/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so.0: undefined reference to `xmlFree@LIBXML2_2.4.30'
/usr/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so.0: undefined reference to `xmlNewDoc@LIBXML2_2.4.30'
/usr/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so.0: undefined reference to `xmlOutputBufferCreateFile@LIBXML2_2.4.30'
/usr/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so.0: undefined reference to `xmlSearchNsByHref@LIBXML2_2.4.30'
/usr/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so.0: undefined reference to `xmlParseCharEncoding@LIBXML2_2.4.30'
/usr/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so.0: undefined reference to `xmlNodeGetContent@LIBXML2_2.4.30'
/usr/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so.0: undefined reference to `xmlFreeDoc@LIBXML2_2.4.30'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[4]: *** [nullclient] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/tmp/pidgin-2.7.10/libpurple/example'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/tmp/pidgin-2.7.10/libpurple'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/pidgin-2.7.10/libpurple'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/pidgin-2.7.10'
make: *** [all] Error 2
thinking this is a libxml2 problem, which has been causing no end of trouble to me lately. Installed libxml2 2.7.8 which didn't help this at all. Should I go with an old version?
 
Old 02-22-2011, 07:46 AM   #5
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Looks more likely to be incompatibility with your version of gstreamer going by the undefined reference errors. It could be something else though - can you post the output above that showing a few lines before the 'undefined reference' starts.
 
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Old 02-22-2011, 07:48 AM   #6
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Code:
Making all in oscar
make[5]: Entering directory `/tmp/pidgin-2.7.10/libpurple/protocols/oscar'
make[5]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[5]: Leaving directory `/tmp/pidgin-2.7.10/libpurple/protocols/oscar'
Making all in qq
make[5]: Entering directory `/tmp/pidgin-2.7.10/libpurple/protocols/qq'
make[5]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[5]: Leaving directory `/tmp/pidgin-2.7.10/libpurple/protocols/qq'
Making all in simple
make[5]: Entering directory `/tmp/pidgin-2.7.10/libpurple/protocols/simple'
make[5]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[5]: Leaving directory `/tmp/pidgin-2.7.10/libpurple/protocols/simple'
Making all in yahoo
make[5]: Entering directory `/tmp/pidgin-2.7.10/libpurple/protocols/yahoo'
make[5]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[5]: Leaving directory `/tmp/pidgin-2.7.10/libpurple/protocols/yahoo'
Making all in zephyr
make[5]: Entering directory `/tmp/pidgin-2.7.10/libpurple/protocols/zephyr'
make[5]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[5]: Leaving directory `/tmp/pidgin-2.7.10/libpurple/protocols/zephyr'
make[5]: Entering directory `/tmp/pidgin-2.7.10/libpurple/protocols'
make[5]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
make[5]: Leaving directory `/tmp/pidgin-2.7.10/libpurple/protocols'
make[4]: Leaving directory `/tmp/pidgin-2.7.10/libpurple/protocols'
Making all in .
make[4]: Entering directory `/tmp/pidgin-2.7.10/libpurple'
make[4]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
make[4]: Leaving directory `/tmp/pidgin-2.7.10/libpurple'
Making all in tests
make[4]: Entering directory `/tmp/pidgin-2.7.10/libpurple/tests'
make[4]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[4]: Leaving directory `/tmp/pidgin-2.7.10/libpurple/tests'
Making all in example
make[4]: Entering directory `/tmp/pidgin-2.7.10/libpurple/example'
  CCLD   nullclient
/usr/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so.0: undefined reference to `xmlFindCharEncodingHandler@LIBXML2_2.4.30'
/usr/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so.0: undefined reference to `xmlParseFile@LIBXML2_2.4.30'
/usr/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so.0: undefined reference to `xmlNewDocNode@LIBXML2_2.4.30'
/usr/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so.0: undefined reference to `xmlSaveFormatFileTo@LIBXML2_2.4.30'
/usr/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so.0: undefined reference to `xmlNewChild@LIBXML2_2.4.30'
/usr/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so.0: undefined reference to `xmlDocGetRootElement@LIBXML2_2.4.30'
/usr/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so.0: undefined reference to `xmlParseMemory@LIBXML2_2.4.30'
/usr/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so.0: undefined reference to `xmlNewNs@LIBXML2_2.4.30'
/usr/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so.0: undefined reference to `xmlFree@LIBXML2_2.4.30'
/usr/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so.0: undefined reference to `xmlNewDoc@LIBXML2_2.4.30'
/usr/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so.0: undefined reference to `xmlOutputBufferCreateFile@LIBXML2_2.4.30'
/usr/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so.0: undefined reference to `xmlSearchNsByHref@LIBXML2_2.4.30'
/usr/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so.0: undefined reference to `xmlParseCharEncoding@LIBXML2_2.4.30'
/usr/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so.0: undefined reference to `xmlNodeGetContent@LIBXML2_2.4.30'
/usr/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so.0: undefined reference to `xmlFreeDoc@LIBXML2_2.4.30'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[4]: *** [nullclient] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/tmp/pidgin-2.7.10/libpurple/example'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/tmp/pidgin-2.7.10/libpurple'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/pidgin-2.7.10/libpurple'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/pidgin-2.7.10'
make: *** [all] Error 2
it goes on like that for a few dozen more lines
 
Old 02-22-2011, 08:06 AM   #7
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Well I just built it to try out since I've started using it again.

Using the slackbuild and other files from mlangdn's link above with the 2.7.20 source and it worked fine.

What version of gstreamer do you have? And is this 13.1 or -current. The stock 13.1 packages is:

/var/log/packages/gstreamer-0.10.29-i486-1
 
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Old 02-22-2011, 08:12 AM   #8
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using 13.1, with the stock gstreamer package. Just checked and its the exact same version. I use pidgin 2.7.9 and it works perfectly fine. Not seeing why .10 would fail to build.
Last edited by Cultist; 02-22-2011 at 08:13 AM.
 
Old 02-22-2011, 08:25 AM   #9
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I'm running -current, and pidgin-2.7.10 builds just fine. If your problem truly is with gstreamer, and you are running stock 13.1, there have been some updates to gstreamer in the -current tree. You could try upgrading your gstreamer from -current to see if pidgin-2.7.10 will build.
 
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Old 02-22-2011, 08:32 AM   #10
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yes, i can confirmed that it works under -Current as i have used this version since it has been released
 
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Old 02-22-2011, 08:37 AM   #11
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I'm running -current, and pidgin-2.7.10 builds just fine. If your problem truly is with gstreamer, and you are running stock 13.1, there have been some updates to gstreamer in the -current tree. You could try upgrading your gstreamer from -current to see if pidgin-2.7.10 will build.
removed the old gstreamer and installed the one from -current, and it works!

I hadn't even considered this option, thanks
 
  


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