--- a/htdocs/gaim-ssl.txt Mon Dec 01 21:08:13 2003 -0500
+++ b/htdocs/gaim-ssl.txt Sun Dec 07 11:31:24 2003 -0500
@@ -6,11 +6,23 @@
read on, maybe you're in luck. but probably not.
+Mozilla 1.5 will not provide all the pieces for NSPR & NSS due to breakage in +Mozilla that misses out some .h files (or something...). You might be able to +install mozilla-{nss,nspr}{,-devel} from 1.4, or install nss from source, in +parallel and link against those for Gaim. Or just use GnuTLS. There's a 3rd party RPM for SuSE 9.0 here : http://www.usr-local-bin.org/gaim.php
+You may need to put /opt/mozilla/lib in /etc/ld.so.conf (and run ldconfig as @@ -21,6 +33,8 @@
You might also need to upgrade pango:
http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/8.2-i386/RPMS.usr-local-bin/pango-1.2.5-SuSE.ulb.1.i586.rpm
+You may need to put /opt/mozilla/lib in /etc/ld.so.conf (and run ldconfig as @@ -120,7 +134,7 @@
-Some have reported success with gnutls from unstable, and compiling gaim from+Some have reported success with GnuTLS from unstable, and compiling gaim from <ntm> i changed the apt sources to include unstable releases
<ntm> apt-get install libgnutls7
@@ -135,7 +149,6 @@
or: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge gaim
In fact, I have no idea why anyone would use Gentoo anyway.
@@ -150,8 +163,13 @@
There's a 3rd party package for Slackware 9.1 here : http://www.uidzero.co.uk/pkg/slack91/
-(This package does not have gtkspell support because gtkspell is not part of-the base Slackware distribution)+This package does not have gtkspell support because gtkspell is not part of +the base Slackware distribution (same package is also at linuxpackages.net). +This one should work out of the box. +The Gaim 0.74 package from Slackware does NOT work out of the box. I have not +tried, but adding /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4 to /etc/ld.so.conf and running ldconfig +as root *might* fixinate it. Or you can use the gaim source, with mozilla-1.4 installed (if you have another
version of mozilla, try replacing 1.4 with your version number):
@@ -171,10 +189,40 @@
figure this out on your own? (or just see below on compiling from source)
+Compile from source. No SSL specific details available at the moment, but +these tips might help you in general: +For i18n to work, you need to have gettext installed. It will probably stuff +itself in /usr/local, so you need to configure like this: +./configure --with-libintl-prefix=/usr/local +Alternatively, if you only need to use English, you can disable i18n (and the +dependancy on gettext) by configuring like so: +./configure --disable-nls +Compile from source. No SSL specific details available at the moment, but +these tips might help you in general: +For i18n to work, you need to have gettext installed. It will probably stuff +itself in /usr/local, so you need to configure like this: +./configure --with-libintl-prefix=/usr/local +Alternatively, if you only need to use English, you can disable i18n (and the +dependancy on gettext) by configuring like so: +./configure --disable-nls -Information on setting up gnutls can be found at:+Information on setting up GnuTLS can be found at: http://alphamonkey.org/view.php?type=notes&id=309
@@ -190,8 +238,13 @@
-mozilla nss & nspr can be found here:+Mozilla NSS & NSPR can be found here: +ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/security/nss/releases/NSS_3_8_RTM/src/nss-3.8.tar.gz +(despite it's name, it contains both NSS & NSPR) +This older one has been referenced here for a while, but did not have much success with ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/security/nss-3.1.1-with-nspr-4.1-dbm.tar.gz
--with-{nss,nspr}-includes should point to the directory with the .h files in (eg. nspr.h)
@@ -200,10 +253,12 @@
If you can't add to /etc/ld.so.conf (or your (*nix) OS doesn't have one) set
the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable instead, either before running gaim or
(for bourne shell & bash) on the gaim command line, eg.
-csh: set LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/mozilla-1.4-sh/bash: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/mozilla-1.4 ; export LD_LIBRARY_PATH+ setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4 + LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/mozilla-1.4 ; export LD_LIBRARY_PATH or sh/bash: run gaim with this command:
-LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/mozilla-1.4 gaim+ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/mozilla-1.4 gaim @@ -217,17 +272,17 @@
libgpg-error (needed by libgcrypt):
ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/alpha/libgpg-error/libgpg-error-0.5.tar.gz
-libgcrypt (needed by gnutls):+libgcrypt (needed by GnuTLS): ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/alpha/libgcrypt/libgcrypt-1.1.43.tar.gz
-libtasn1 (needed by gnutls):+libtasn1 (needed by GnuTLS): ftp://ftp.gnutls.org/pub/gnutls/libtasn1/libtasn1-0.2.6.tar.gz
-gnutls (needed by gaim):+GnuTLS (needed by gaim): ftp://ftp.gnutls.org/pub/gnutls/attic/gnutls-0.9.91.tar.gz
-libopenck is a PITA, don't use it, gnutls will break. Also version 0.9.92 of-gnutls doesn't compile because the maintainer forgot to add 1 file needed. 0.9.91+libopenck is a PITA, don't use it, GnuTLS will break. Also version 0.9.92 of +GnuTLS doesn't compile because the maintainer forgot to add 1 file needed. 0.9.91 You shouldn't need to pass any --with-xxx-libs/include to gaim since everything is
@@ -236,16 +291,14 @@
+For FreeBSD (and, it seems, OpenBSD) users: <synic> ok, gnutls 0.8.10 officially works on FreeBSD
<synic> and 0.8.6 doesn't :)
-(note: this is quite untested, feedback welcome)+Non-root (mozilla-{nss,nspr} or GnuTLS already installed) +========================================================= If you don't have root access on the system you're trying to install gaim
on, you need to configure gaim to install under your home directory.
@@ -255,12 +308,79 @@
If there are additional dependancies required that are not installed on
the system, you'll need to install those in a similar manner and pass the
-correct locations to gaim's ./configure.+correct locations to gaim's ./configure as shown in the next sections. +Non-root including mozilla-{nss,nspr} +===================================== +ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/security/nss/releases/NSS_3_8_RTM/src/nss-3.8.tar.gz +cd nss-3.8/mozilla/security/nss
+(on systems where make is not GNU make, use gmake) +mkdir -p /home/username/lib +mkdir -p /home/username/include/nspr +find ../../dist/*/lib -type l \ + \( -name "*.so" -o -name "*.chk" \) \ + -exec cp -L {} /home/username/lib \; +cp -Lr ../../dist/public/* /home/username/include +cp -Lr ../../dist/*/include/* /home/username/include/nspr ./configure --prefix=/home/username \
- --with-nss-includes=/home/username/usr/include/mozilla-1.4/nss \- --with-nspr-includes=/home/username/usr/include/mozilla-1.4/nspr \- --with-nss-libs=/home/username/usr/lib/mozilla-1.4 \- --with-nspr-libs=/home/username/usr/lib/mozilla-1.4+ --with-nss-includes=/home/username/usr/include/nss \ + --with-nspr-includes=/home/username/usr/include/nspr \ + --with-nss-libs=/home/username/usr/lib \ + --with-nspr-libs=/home/username/usr/lib +You should now be able to use Gaim by running /home/username/bin/gaim +In some cases, it might be necessary to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/username/lib +Non-root including GnuTLS +========================= +This has been tested using the exact same versions of applications specified +above in the GnuTLS section, with the exception of libtasn1 (GnuTLS actually +includes a version of libtasn1 which seems to work). +./configure --prefix=/home/username +# fix the configure script! +perl -pi -e 's/ --prefix=\$gpg_error_config_prefix//' configure +./configure --prefix=/home/username --with-gpg-error-prefix=/home/username +LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/username/lib ./configure --prefix=/home/username --with-libgcrypt=/home/username +./configure --prefix=/home/username --enable-gnutls=yes \ + --with-gnutls-libs=/home/username/lib \ + --with-gnutls-includes=/home/username/include +You should now be able to use Gaim by running /home/username/bin/gaim +In some cases, it might be necessary to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/username/lib +before running Gaim (this was not necessary on the tested system) 