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

[Ian Goldberg]

On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 10:48:26AM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> See www.pkgsrc.org.  Control scripts build/install and then make
> binary packages.  Yes, I can do that, and get the control bits in theb
> NetBSD pkgsrc CVS repo, and then they can just type 'make package' and
> have it compile.  There is no single binary package; netbsd runs on
> tons of cpu architectures.  (Have you run otr on sparc64?  I wonder if
> gaim works there even.)

We tried it on a Debian Linux sparc64 yesterday, but the machine's
ethercard was too flaky to run gaim over X forwarding.  Bleh!
[It compiled fine, though.]

>   This is definitely the way to go.  Does anyone know how to do this
>   off the top of his/her head?
> 
> I could probably do this in a couple of hours.  I wouldn't want to do
> it unless it would be accepted, since if not it's a waste of time.
> Basically, one has to write a configure.ac to look for things, and
> Makefile.am to build and install them.

That'd be great!

> One issue is the windows port.  If you use alternate build control
> files on the same source, this should be ok.  autoconf enables all
> sorts of HAVE_FOO tests, but right now you just have to have all the
> foos that are used.  I don't know how gaim is built on windows.  If
> cygwin, autoconf'd packages are fine.

It's either cygwin or mingw.  Paul?

   - Ian