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[gaim-migrate @ 17899] Some touchups: * If one of the parallel connection attempts fails immediately (i.e. does not time out) then don't cancel the other one. * Make sure we don't continue on to step 2 of the peer connection process after we kick off the parallel gaim_proxy_connects(). It looks like this would happen most of the time, because the connect_timeout_timer would be added for the verified ip, so it would NOT be added for the client ip, and so we wouldn't hit the "return" call because it happens to be in the same block as the second gaim_timeout_add() call. * Add the connection timeout timer even if the gaim_proxy_connect() to the verified ip returns NULL for some crazy reason. I didn't actually test any of this. I should probably do that when I get home. 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.