[email protected] wrote:
> [email protected] <[email protected]> [16-04-19 19:04]:
>> Hi,
>>
>> on the way to a hopefully working im-client with otr/encryption I next
>> checked pidgin
>>
>> I set the use flags like this
>>
>> Installed versions: 2.10.11(18:48:35 04/19/16)(dbus doc gnutls
>> gstreamer gtk ncurses nls perl python sasl tk xscreensaver -aqua
>> -debug -eds -gadu -groupwise -idn -meanwhile -mxit
>> -networkmanager -prediction -silc -spell -tcl -zephyr -zeroconf
>> PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7 -python3_3 -python3_4"
>> PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 -python3_3 -python3_4")
>>
>>
>> The compilation runs fine resulting in a pidgin executable which does
>> simply nothing.
>> Called from the commandline the cursor jumps from behind 'pidgin' into
>> next line on pressing <RETURN>.
>> Nothing else happens.
>>
>> What I am doing wrong here?
>>
>
> Ok, one additional finding:
>
> sudo pidgin displays a starting dialog (account setup).
> I did not proceed to not to "pollute" the installation
> with root permissions.
>
> I checked the implemented groups but found nothing
> appropiate to add my uid to.
>
> Remains the one question: How can I fix it?
>
This won't help you much but here it works as expected: if I remove the
config firectory (~/.purple) and issue 'pidgin' from the command line a
GUI wizard shows up.
[I] net-im/pidgin
Installed versions: 2.10.12-r2(03:26:26 PM 03/22/2016)(dbus
gnutls gtk ncurses nls spell xscreensaver -aqua -debug -doc -eds -gadu
-groupwise -gstreamer -idn -meanwhile -mxit -networkmanager -perl -pie
-prediction -python -sasl -silc -tcl -tk -zephyr -zeroconf
PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7 -python3_3 -python3_4"
PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_4 -python3_3")
'pidgin -d' will print some debugging info, maybe you'll get something
out of it.
raffaele
