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jabber: Stricter checks on the send_raw prpl function. This (should) avoids a crash in the gtalkinvisible plugin as seen in a crash log from #pidgin. The plugin is trying to send a stanza as the (eventual) result of the signing-on signal, which is before prpl_info->login() is called. Call stack: jabber_send_raw protocols/jabber/jabber.c:443 jabber_prpl_send_raw protocols/jabber/jabber.c:548 6EA0122D plugins\gtalkinvisible.dll plugin_invisible_cb gtalkinvisible.c:147 67D0410B purple_signal_emit_vargs signals.c:465 67D04217 purple_signal_emit signals.c:436 67CFB75F purple_prpl_change_account_status prpl.c:389 67D09B3F status_has_changed status.c:669 67CC4409 purple_account_set_status_list account.c:1783 67CC4717 purple_account_set_status account.c:1752 67D00F18 purple_savedstatus_activate_for_account savedstatuses.c:1174 67D01899 purple_savedstatus_set_idleaway savedstatuses.c:887 67CE5D13 check_idleness idle.c:193 67D0410B purple_signal_emit_vargs signals.c:465 67D04217 purple_signal_emit signals.c:436 67CD9F34 _purple_connection_new connection.c:157 67CC56C1 purple_account_connect account.c:1216

Purple, Pidgin and Finch
========================
See AUTHORS and COPYRIGHT for the list of contributors.

libpurple is a library intended to be used by programmers seeking
to write an IM client that connects to many IM networks.  It supports
AIM, ICQ, XMPP, MSN and Yahoo!, among others.

Pidgin is an graphical IM client written in C which uses the GTK+
toolkit.

Finch is a text-based IM client written in C which uses the ncurses
toolkit.

These programs are not endorsed by, nor affiliated with, AOL nor any
other company in any way.

BUILD
=====

Read the 'INSTALL' file for more detailed directions.

These programs use the standard ./configure ; make. You need to use
gmake, BSD make probably won't work. Remember, run ./configure --help
to see what build options are available.

In order to compile Pidgin you need to have GTK+ 2.0 installed (as
well as the development files!). The configure script will fail if you
don't.  If you don't have GTK+ 2.0 installed, you should install it
using your distribution's package management tools.

For sound support, you also need gstreamer 0.10 or higher. For
spellchecking support, you need libgtkspell (http://gtkspell.sf.net/).
Your distro of choice probably already includes these, just be sure to
install the development packages.

RUN
===

You should run 'make install' as root to make sure plugins and other files
get installed into locations they want to be in. Once you've done that,
you only need to run 'pidgin' or 'finch'.

To get started, simply add a new account.

If you come across a bug, please report it at: http://pidgin.im

PLUGINS
=======

If you do not wish to enable the plugin support within Purple, run the
./configure script with the --disable-plugins option and recompile your
source code.  This will prevent the ability to load plugins.

'make install' puts the plugins in $PREFIX/lib/purple (PREFIX being what
you specified when you ./configure'd - it defaults to /usr/local). Purple
looks for the plugins in that directory by default.  Plugins can be installed
per-user in ~/.purple/plugins as well.  Pidgin and Finch also look in
$PREFIX/lib/pidgin and $PREFIX/lib/finch for UI-specific, respectively.

To build a plugin from a .c file, put it in the plugins/ directory in
the source and run 'make filename.so', e.g. if you have the .c file
'kickass.c', put it in the plugins/ directory, and from that directory,
run 'make kickass.so'.