[Slackbuilds-users] Pidgin 2.0.0

[Robby Workman]

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Robby Workman wrote:
> I'll throw this out to the list...
> 
> It seems that on 11.0, pidgin won't link to the mozilla-nss package.
> Disabling the use of Seamonkey's nss results in a build without nss,
> and of course, you can enable Seamonkey's nss, but it's already been
> shown that it's not going to provide a stable ABI for pidgin to link.
> 
> Pat advised that he does not intend to add gnutls to 11.0, so unless
> something changes, he will not be putting pidgin in 11.0 either, as
> that is currently the only way (it seems) to get stable nss support.
> 
> With that said...  If someone figures out how to force pidgin to link
> against the mozilla-nss package, please advise Pat.  Otherwise, and
> until further notice, pidgin is fair game for a submission to
> SlackBuilds.org.
> 


To answer a question I've gotten twice now:

The problem with linking Seamonkey's nss is not whether it works
right now -- it does -- it's whether it will work after the next
Seamonkey update.  Recall that the reason mozilla-nss was added to
11.0 was due to the fact that the Seamonkey-1.0.8 update broke gaim.

RW
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