Bug 53428 – Gaim missing dependancy on startup-notification

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Daniel Drake (RETIRED) 2004-06-09 09:45:57 UTC]

The gaim executable is linked against:
libstartup-notification-1.so.0 => /usr/lib/libstartup-notification-1.so.0 (0x410d3000)

So, I think startup-notification should be a dependancy in the GAIM ebuild? A friend set up a basic system (2004.0 GRP) and merged the prebuilt gaim binary, and was unable to start it until I asked him to merge this.

[Comment 1 Don Seiler (RETIRED) 2004-06-09 10:00:38 UTC]

I'm using gaim just fine without startup-notification installed.  Gaim automatically uses startup-notification if it finds it.  Your friend had that link show up in his ldd output before installing startup-notification?  Sounds to me like he had some sort of b0rked startup-notification setup lying about.

[Comment 2 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) 2004-06-09 10:57:46 UTC]

Apologies for not looking closer into that first, I just assumed that it was a non-optional dependency.

In that case, the problem is a GRP bug - the gaim binary was obviously built on a system with startup-notification installed, and will therefore not run when unpacked onto a system not running startup-notification.

[Comment 3 Don Seiler (RETIRED) 2004-06-09 11:01:57 UTC]

Hmmm yeah that would make sense.  Not sure how we'll fix that.  I'll ask releng, perhaps I'll have to dep on startup-notification after all just to be safe.

[Comment 4 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) 2004-06-09 11:43:59 UTC]

Perhaps you could add the --disable-startup-notification flag to the ./configure call, when the livecd use flag is set.

[Comment 5 Don Seiler (RETIRED) 2005-03-23 08:05:42 UTC]

Just an FYI that I'm going to add startup-notification as a DEPEND full-time in gaim.