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[Gaim-commits] CVS: web/htdocs gaim-ssl.txt,1.8,1.9
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From: Luke S. <lsc...@us...> - 2003-12-07 16:31:27
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Update of /cvsroot/gaim/web/htdocs In directory sc8-pr-cvs1:/tmp/cvs-serv31255/htdocs Modified Files: gaim-ssl.txt Log Message: (11:28:52) nosnilmot: LSchiere: I'm running out of bizarre ways to install gaim now : http://www.nosnilmot.com/gaim/gaim-ssl.txt.patch Index: gaim-ssl.txt =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/gaim/web/htdocs/gaim-ssl.txt,v retrieving revision 1.8 retrieving revision 1.9 diff -u -d -p -r1.8 -r1.9 --- gaim-ssl.txt 2 Dec 2003 02:08:13 -0000 1.8 +++ gaim-ssl.txt 7 Dec 2003 16:31:24 -0000 1.9 @@ -6,11 +6,23 @@ Still having problems getting SSL to wor read on, maybe you're in luck. but probably not. +General Notes +============= + +Mozilla 1.5 will not provide all the pieces for NSPR & NSS due to breakage in +Mozilla that misses out some .h files (or something...). You might be able to +install mozilla-{nss,nspr}{,-devel} from 1.4, or install nss from source, in +parallel and link against those for Gaim. Or just use GnuTLS. + + SuSE (9.0) ========== There's a 3rd party RPM for SuSE 9.0 here : http://www.usr-local-bin.org/gaim.php +You may need to put /opt/mozilla/lib in /etc/ld.so.conf (and run ldconfig as +root) + SuSE (8.2) ========== @@ -21,6 +33,8 @@ NOTE: usr-local-bin are now providing pa You might also need to upgrade pango: http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/8.2-i386/RPMS.usr-local-bin/pango-1.2.5-SuSE.ulb.1.i586.rpm +You may need to put /opt/mozilla/lib in /etc/ld.so.conf (and run ldconfig as +root) Red Hat Linux (8.0 or 9) ======================== @@ -120,7 +134,7 @@ Debian Use the debs -Some have reported success with gnutls from unstable, and compiling gaim from +Some have reported success with GnuTLS from unstable, and compiling gaim from source: <ntm> i changed the apt sources to include unstable releases <ntm> apt-get install libgnutls7 @@ -135,7 +149,6 @@ in #gaim from time to time, such as: first: emerge sync then: emerge gaim or: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge gaim - or: emerge -p gaim In fact, I have no idea why anyone would use Gentoo anyway. @@ -150,8 +163,13 @@ Slackware (9.1) =============== There's a 3rd party package for Slackware 9.1 here : http://www.uidzero.co.uk/pkg/slack91/ -(This package does not have gtkspell support because gtkspell is not part of -the base Slackware distribution) +This package does not have gtkspell support because gtkspell is not part of +the base Slackware distribution (same package is also at linuxpackages.net). +This one should work out of the box. + +The Gaim 0.74 package from Slackware does NOT work out of the box. I have not +tried, but adding /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4 to /etc/ld.so.conf and running ldconfig +as root *might* fixinate it. Or you can use the gaim source, with mozilla-1.4 installed (if you have another version of mozilla, try replacing 1.4 with your version number): @@ -171,10 +189,40 @@ If you're crazy enough to actually use L figure this out on your own? (or just see below on compiling from source) +FreeBSD (5.1) +============= + +Compile from source. No SSL specific details available at the moment, but +these tips might help you in general: + +For i18n to work, you need to have gettext installed. It will probably stuff +itself in /usr/local, so you need to configure like this: +./configure --with-libintl-prefix=/usr/local + +Alternatively, if you only need to use English, you can disable i18n (and the +dependancy on gettext) by configuring like so: +./configure --disable-nls + + +OpenBSD (3.4) +============= + +Compile from source. No SSL specific details available at the moment, but +these tips might help you in general: + +For i18n to work, you need to have gettext installed. It will probably stuff +itself in /usr/local, so you need to configure like this: +./configure --with-libintl-prefix=/usr/local + +Alternatively, if you only need to use English, you can disable i18n (and the +dependancy on gettext) by configuring like so: +./configure --disable-nls + + Mac OS X (10.3.1) ================= -Information on setting up gnutls can be found at: +Information on setting up GnuTLS can be found at: http://alphamonkey.org/view.php?type=notes&id=309 @@ -190,8 +238,13 @@ option, but I've witnessed more success Mozilla NSS & NSPR ================== -mozilla nss & nspr can be found here: +Mozilla NSS & NSPR can be found here: +ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/security/nss/releases/NSS_3_8_RTM/src/nss-3.8.tar.gz +(despite it's name, it contains both NSS & NSPR) + +This older one has been referenced here for a while, but did not have much success with +it: ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/security/nss-3.1.1-with-nspr-4.1-dbm.tar.gz --with-{nss,nspr}-includes should point to the directory with the .h files in (eg. nspr.h) @@ -200,10 +253,12 @@ ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/se If you can't add to /etc/ld.so.conf (or your (*nix) OS doesn't have one) set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable instead, either before running gaim or (for bourne shell & bash) on the gaim command line, eg. -csh: set LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/mozilla-1.4 -sh/bash: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/mozilla-1.4 ; export LD_LIBRARY_PATH +csh: + setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4 +sh/bash: + LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/mozilla-1.4 ; export LD_LIBRARY_PATH or sh/bash: run gaim with this command: -LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/mozilla-1.4 gaim + LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/mozilla-1.4 gaim GnuTLS @@ -217,17 +272,17 @@ versions and links I give compile normal libgpg-error (needed by libgcrypt): ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/alpha/libgpg-error/libgpg-error-0.5.tar.gz -libgcrypt (needed by gnutls): +libgcrypt (needed by GnuTLS): ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/alpha/libgcrypt/libgcrypt-1.1.43.tar.gz -libtasn1 (needed by gnutls): +libtasn1 (needed by GnuTLS): ftp://ftp.gnutls.org/pub/gnutls/libtasn1/libtasn1-0.2.6.tar.gz -gnutls (needed by gaim): +GnuTLS (needed by gaim): ftp://ftp.gnutls.org/pub/gnutls/attic/gnutls-0.9.91.tar.gz -libopenck is a PITA, don't use it, gnutls will break. Also version 0.9.92 of -gnutls doesn't compile because the maintainer forgot to add 1 file needed. 0.9.91 +libopenck is a PITA, don't use it, GnuTLS will break. Also version 0.9.92 of +GnuTLS doesn't compile because the maintainer forgot to add 1 file needed. 0.9.91 works, so just do that. You shouldn't need to pass any --with-xxx-libs/include to gaim since everything is @@ -236,16 +291,14 @@ obscure places you are daft, just don't sofar -For FreeBSD users: +For FreeBSD (and, it seems, OpenBSD) users: <synic> ok, gnutls 0.8.10 officially works on FreeBSD <synic> and 0.8.6 doesn't :) -Thanks, synic. - +Thanks synic. -Non-root -======== -(note: this is quite untested, feedback welcome) +Non-root (mozilla-{nss,nspr} or GnuTLS already installed) +========================================================= If you don't have root access on the system you're trying to install gaim on, you need to configure gaim to install under your home directory. @@ -255,12 +308,79 @@ eg: If there are additional dependancies required that are not installed on the system, you'll need to install those in a similar manner and pass the -correct locations to gaim's ./configure. +correct locations to gaim's ./configure as shown in the next sections. + + +Non-root including mozilla-{nss,nspr} +===================================== + +ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/security/nss/releases/NSS_3_8_RTM/src/nss-3.8.tar.gz + +Extract nss-3.8.tar.gz +cd nss-3.8/mozilla/security/nss +make nss_build_all +make install + +(on systems where make is not GNU make, use gmake) + +mkdir -p /home/username/lib +mkdir -p /home/username/include/nspr +find ../../dist/*/lib -type l \ + \( -name "*.so" -o -name "*.chk" \) \ + -exec cp -L {} /home/username/lib \; +cp -Lr ../../dist/public/* /home/username/include +cp -Lr ../../dist/*/include/* /home/username/include/nspr + + +Gaim: -eg: ./configure --prefix=/home/username \ - --with-nss-includes=/home/username/usr/include/mozilla-1.4/nss \ - --with-nspr-includes=/home/username/usr/include/mozilla-1.4/nspr \ - --with-nss-libs=/home/username/usr/lib/mozilla-1.4 \ - --with-nspr-libs=/home/username/usr/lib/mozilla-1.4 + --with-nss-includes=/home/username/usr/include/nss \ + --with-nspr-includes=/home/username/usr/include/nspr \ + --with-nss-libs=/home/username/usr/lib \ + --with-nspr-libs=/home/username/usr/lib +make +make install + +You should now be able to use Gaim by running /home/username/bin/gaim +In some cases, it might be necessary to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/username/lib +before running Gaim + + +Non-root including GnuTLS +========================= + +This has been tested using the exact same versions of applications specified +above in the GnuTLS section, with the exception of libtasn1 (GnuTLS actually +includes a version of libtasn1 which seems to work). + +libgpg-error: +./configure --prefix=/home/username +make +make install + +libgcrypt: + +# fix the configure script! +perl -pi -e 's/ --prefix=\$gpg_error_config_prefix//' configure +./configure --prefix=/home/username --with-gpg-error-prefix=/home/username +make +make install + +gnutls: +LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/username/lib ./configure --prefix=/home/username --with-libgcrypt=/home/username +make +make install + +gaim: + +./configure --prefix=/home/username --enable-gnutls=yes \ + --with-gnutls-libs=/home/username/lib \ + --with-gnutls-includes=/home/username/include +make +make install + +You should now be able to use Gaim by running /home/username/bin/gaim +In some cases, it might be necessary to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/username/lib +before running Gaim (this was not necessary on the tested system) |