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[gaim-migrate @ 14742] 1. Protecting the --enable-debug warning tests with an "if gcc" check. 2. Adding a number of warning flags to --enable-debug. All cases of the added warnings have been fixed, except: a. The pointer-arith warnings. I think someone smarter than me should decide whether we need to fix those (and how) or if that should be disabled. That said, I think all the errors left (after you consider the exception listed as "b" below) are in libzephyr. b. Those in src/protocols/sametime/meanwhile at siege's request. Don't worry about these for now. 3. Noting a few warnings we could enable, and the cases we'd have to deal with. Thoughts on these warnings? 4. I added support for FORTIFY_SOURCE. If your compiler has support for this feature, --enable-debug will set _FORTIFY_SOURCE=2. I'm doing this in --enable-debug for the warnings you get. I wouldn't mind having it on by default for the runtime protections as well. Thoughts? 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.