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[gaim-migrate @ 16066] Fix Coverity CID 45: Check to make sure a channel 2 ICBM actually contains an IP address TLV before attempting to use it. This avoids a crash when the server sends us an abnormal channel 2 ICBM. I'm not sure if that ever happens. Fix Coverity CID 204: Don't attempt to send data over a FLAP BOS connection that doesn't exist. This should never happen because the account should get disconnected first. Fix Coverity CID 205: Don't check that a variable 'od' which we know is valid is not equal to NULL in aim_search_address() in family_userlookup.c Fix Coverity CID 206: Don't check that the variable 'od' which we know is valid is not equal to NULL in aim_chat_join() in family_oservice.c Fix Coverity CID 207: I neglected to remove a "return;" line from aim_admin_setnick() in family_admin.c which caused setting your AIM screen name formatting to not work. Fix Coverity CID 208: Remove a duplicate call to gaim_connection_get_account() in peer_connection_propose() in peer.c. Fix Coverity CID 209: Remove the unused variable "username" from incomingim_chan2() in oscar.c. Fix Coverity CID 210: Remove the unused variable "account" from peer_connection_listen_cb() in peer.c. committer: Tailor Script <[e-mail]>

This file describes how to compile and run gaim with dbus support.
Hopefully, most of the steps from point 3 will soon be automated.


1. Make sure you have the latest version (0.34) of the dbus library
   installed, including glib bindings.  

   http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/dbus


2. Compile gaim

   ./configure --enable-dbus
   make
   make install


3. Configure your dbus instalation for gaim

   A. Find your dbus session configuration file, usually

      /etc/dbus-1/session.conf

   B. In that file, find the <servicedir> section.  This section
      contains the directory that stores files describing services,
      usually

      /usr/share/dbus-1/services

   C. Copy src/dbus-gaim.service to that directory

   D. Edit the dbus-gaim.service file you've just copied, and replace
      the path in the "Exec=" line with the path to your gaim
      executable.


4. Start Session DBUS if you haven't done it already

   eval `dbus-launch --session`
   export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID

   These commands will set the two above shell variables.  These
   variables must be set before running any dbus-aware programs.

Start gaim as usual.  To communicate with it, use "gaim-send".  When
you execute gaim-send, the dbus system will automatically start a gaim
process if one is not running already.