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[gaim-migrate @ 16920] Cancelable DNS queries. This eliminates crashes when you cancel a connection attempt while we're waiting for a response from a DNS server. I tested with all three methods, so they SHOULD be ok. Let me know if you have problems. I should be around today, starting in maybe an hour. I feel like it's kinda dumb for us to have three implementations for the same thing. I want to get rid of the child-process method (currently used in Unix and OS-X) and use the thread-based method (currently used in Windows) everywhere. Then we can get rid of the third method, too (currently used when !Unix and !OS-X and !Windows) Any objections? committer: Tailor Script <tailor@pidgin.im>
author Mark Doliner <mark@kingant.net>
date Sun, 20 Aug 2006 22:24:13 +0000
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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.