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Bug 710770

Summary: net-im/pidgin: libjabber.so is not usable because the 'purple_init_plugin' symbol could not be found
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: mbe <marek.bedy>
Component: Current packagesAssignee: No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it <maintainer-needed>
Status: UNCONFIRMED ---    
Severity: normal CC: mscardovi
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---
Attachments: pidgin-run-debug.log
emerge-info.txt
pidgin-build.log

Description mbe 2020-02-25 10:11:47 UTC
Created attachment 615682 [details]
pidgin-run-debug.log

Hello,

i am not able to run XMPP protocol in pidgin (2.13.0-r6), i am getting this error lines in the debug which disable the XMPP protocol:

(10:39:25) plugins: probing /usr/lib64/purple-2/libjabber.so
(10:39:25) plugins: /usr/lib64/purple-2/libjabber.so is not usable because the 'purple_init_plugin' symbol could not be found.  Does the plugin call the PURPLE_INIT_PLUGIN() macro?
(10:39:25) plugins: probing /usr/lib64/purple-2/liboscar.so
(10:39:25) plugins: /usr/lib64/purple-2/liboscar.so is not usable because the 'purple_init_plugin' symbol could not be found.  Does the plugin call the PURPLE_INIT_PLUGIN() macro?

# ls -l /usr/lib64/purple-2/libjabber.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Feb 25 10:37 /usr/lib64/purple-2/libjabber.so -> libjabber.so.0.0.0

# readelf -Ws /usr/lib64/purple-2/libjabber.so | grep -i purple_init_plugin
Comment 1 mbe 2020-02-25 10:12:52 UTC
Created attachment 615684 [details]
emerge-info.txt
Comment 2 mbe 2020-02-25 10:13:16 UTC
Created attachment 615686 [details]
pidgin-build.log
Comment 3 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2020-02-25 10:27:23 UTC
*** Bug 710768 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Marco Scardovi (scardracs) 2023-01-12 20:27:11 UTC
Is this still valid?