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Installing Finch on OpenBSD without X11

Submitted by achillean on Sun, 05/04/2008 - 03:59.

Since my OpenBSD install doesn't use X11 I couldn't use the official Pidgin package and had to install by source instead. To start out, I used the following configure command:

./configure --enable-consoleui --disable-gtkui --without-x --with-python

Which resulted in the following error:

...
checking for initscr in -lncursesw... no
checking for update_panels in -lpanelw... no
checking for initscr in -lncurses... yes
checking for update_panels in -lpanel... no
configure: error:

Finch will not be built. You need to install ncursesw (or ncurses) and its development headers.

Unfortunately, both libpanel and libncurses exist, so clearly something must be going wrong w/ the pidgin configure script. Since I knew it was a problem w/ the detection of libpanel, I decided to go w/ the quick-fix option and simply changed lines 28670-28674 from:

if test $ac_cv_lib_panel_update_panels = yes; then
  GNT_LIBS="$GNT_LIBS -lpanel"
else
  enable_consoleui=no
fi

to:

GNT_LIBS="$GNT_LIBS -lpanel"

So I just forced it to add the panel libs.

Afterwards, there was just one more problem: the GMSGFMT and MSGFMT variables weren't set in 'po/Makefile'. 'msgfmt' is a program that's part of the gettext package, and was installed on my system in '/usr/local/bin/'. Therefore, all I had to do was set GMSGFMT and MSGFMT (lines 47 and 48) in 'po/Makefile' to '/usr/local/bin/msgfmt' and everything compiled smoothly.

Edit: Oh, and use 'gmake' of course instead of 'make'.

FLAVOR=no-x11

Submitted by anonymous bastard on Wed, 05/07/2008 - 02:57.

You could try talking to the port's maintainer, maybe get them to add a no-x11 flavour.

good point

Submitted by achillean on Fri, 05/09/2008 - 00:36.

I just contacted the maintainer and we'll see whether a no-x11 flavor can be added.

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