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[gaim-migrate @ 17319] Rest of SF Patch #1559532 from Mike Stoddard Fixes SF Bug 1520965 Fixes SF Bug 1544012 "This is patch to fix connection problems in the Novell protocol plugin. It should fix bugs 1520965 and 1544012." "The two bugs are both connection problems. Unfortunately the plugin is designed to be a little too synchronous so non-blocking i/o causes problems for it. The fix is to retry a little longer in nm_read_all and to not disconnect if errno is EAGAIN after processing an incoming response or event. When I get more time I will work on making the plugin more asynchronous so that we don't have to block in nm_read_all. For now however this patch will get people working again. Any suggestions/comments are welcome." I consulted with Daniel on this one, and I'm committing it as a temporary fix, since Mike says he's going to fix it for real later. 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.