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I expanded your patch, Richard, to also do appropriate header checking in the configure script and then use that information. I removed some other #includes which don't appear to be needed. committer: Richard Laager <[e-mail]>

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.