[OTR-dev] compilation on NetBSD too hard, but gaim plugin seems to work

[Ian Goldberg]

On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 10:18:14AM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> On a NetBSD/i386 2.0ish system with gaim and libgrcrypt installed, I
> donwloaded OTR 1.0.1 and tried to build it.  I had a number of build
> issues, all of which were trivial for me to fix, but probably would
> have stopped mere "users".  After fixing them, I was able to run the
> plugin and talk to myself from two jabber accounts on different
> servers.

What is the usual NetBSD packaging mechanism?  Can you make one of
whatever that is?  We can host it, and then NetBSD users will just
have to install it.

> b) Use autoconf/automake/libtool.  This is probably not very hard,
> especially if one is willing to install the shlib version of the
> library, since that's what is natural.

This is definitely the way to go.  Does anyone know how to do this
off the top of his/her head?

[I'd actually prefer to keep libotr as a static library, at least for
now, if only to not have to worry about versioning issues as the library
undergoes almost-certain changes at this early stage.]

   - Ian