[OTR-users] Local installation of pidgin-otr

[Thomas B]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 04:31:30PM +0100, Jan Kotuc wrote:
> 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...

`./configure --help` shows another option --with-libotr-inc-prefix.
Looking into the configure script it seems you have to use both:
--with-libotr-prefix for the lib dir, --with-libotr-inc-prefix for the
include dir. Hope this helps.

Regards,
Thomas