If you try to enable gnutls support into Gaim (for example, if you want MSN support), and you have "-Wl,--as-needed" into your LDFLAGS, the configure script will fail when trying to link against libgnutls.so, thus disabling all SSL-related features. The culprit seems to be this snippet: (1104-1106 of configure.ac) AC_CACHE_CHECK([for GNUTLS libraries], gnutls_libs, [ LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS $with_gnutls_libs -lgnutls -lgcrypt" AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC(gnutls_init, gnutls_libs="yes", gnutls_libs="no") LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS_save" ]) There are other such uses of LDFLAGS throughout the autoconf file. I think the correct fix should be to change the use of LDFLAGS throughout the configure.ac with the variable "LIBS". I'll try that and I'll post a patch if it works :-).
Created attachment 97902 [details, diff] gaim-2.0.0_beta3-as-needed.patch This updates the already existing as-needed patch to fix the configure.ac. Please note that you should change the ebuild to call "eautoreconf" instead that only "eautomake". There are no other changes required. Gaim now builds and executes okay for me.
This patch should be sent upstream before it is added to gentoo's gaim package.
I added an URL with the issue sent upstream, for reference.
If you would please post the original error message I am not happy with your fix and I know upstream will reject it. There has to be a better way then what you are suggesting.
Maybe there is. Anyway, my patch has been accepted upstream. If you wasn't happy with my fix you could have told me so before I posted the bug on SF, not after, since it was you that purposed to contact them in the first place. Anyway, you just have to compile gaim with: USE="gnutls" LDFLAGS="-Wl,--as-needed" emerge gaim to see the error yourself. Just for the sake of completeness: as far as I can tell the patch I purposed just reflects the guidelines set into the autoconf info manual, and isn't so bad as you seem to think. It seems the Right Way(TM) to do it to me. If you could just elaborate about why it is a bad fix... ?
Since it was accepted upstream, and beta3 is no longer in the tree, I shall close this as fixed now.
