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[gaim-migrate @ 278] Two star college football players need to pass the final to play in the big game. The professor loves football, but knows these guys aren't the brightest bulbs in teh box, so he gives them a special final, puts them in a room by themselves, and gives them an hour. The guys look at each other, and start in on the final, which has only one question: "What did Old MacDonald have?" One guy looks at the other and says, "Do you know the answer to this?" The other guy says, "Duh, a farm." "How do you spell that?" "Stupid! EIEIO!" committer: Tailor Script <[e-mail]>

Note:

The plugins that come with GAIM are for educational purposes only.
We have released them hoping to give you guys enough information to
go on.  We'll continue developing them in our free time but we ask you
to do the same.  If you have any suggestions for them, let us know.

If you do not wish to enable the plugin support within GAIM, 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/gaim (PREFIX being what you
specified when you ./configure'd - it defaults to /usr/local). Gaim looks
for the plugins in $HOME/.gaim/plugins/ by default, but they do not have
to be there to use them. Also, plugins have a .so extension by default,
though they do not have to.

Enjoy and Happy Hacking!

Rob Flynn