[OTR-users] Local installation of pidgin-otr

[Jan Kotuc]

Hi people,

i struggle with pidgin-otr installation on a school machine, on which i
have no root privileges. I installed libotr first, like this:

./configure --prefix=$HOME/apps/libotr && make && make install

It went okay. Then i wanted to install pidgin-otr and used the following
command:

./configure --prefix=$HOME/apps/pidgin-otr
--with-libotr-prefix=$HOME/apps/libotr/

But it didn't work out. This was the error message:

checking for libotr LIBS...  -L/home/xkotuc1/apps/libotr/ -lotr
checking for libotr headers version 3.x >= 3.2.0... not present.
checking for otrl_message_receiving in -lotr... yes
configure: error: libotr 3.2.0 or newer is required.

No matter which subdir of ~/apps/libotr (i.e. bin, lib, include... ) I
provided in the command, it still didn't work. Ideas, anyone? I'd be
very thankful...

jan