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Fix building outside of the source directory. This is derived from the patch on ticket 3864 from Bjoern, but reworked to be more generic so hopefully we don't break this again. Fixes: #3864

For information on writing a plugin for Purple, Pidgin or Finch, go
http://developer.pidgin.im and click on API.  From there, see the HOWTOs in the
"Related Pages" section.

You can also generate this documentation locally by installing
doxygen and graphviz dot, then running "make docs" in the
source tree.  The documentation will be in the docs/html directory.