plugins and protocols

[Luke Schierer]

On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 07:40:40AM -0700, Bill Fassler wrote:
> I have a couple questions:
> 
> 1) Are protocols plugins?

by default yes.  You can override this by giving a comma separated list
of protocols to the configure flag --with-static-prpls

> 2) Where do the protocols reside in the installed directory structure?

$prefix/lib/purple-2/

> 
> Now that I have better keyboard interface I can navigate through the
> windows of my cross-compiled stripped down Finch.  However, when
> I hit the "ADD" key on the ACCOUNTS window I blow up with a NULL
> pointer access.  After some pondering I thought that perhaps I am
> missing the protocols even though they appeared to build (at least
> most of them).  I did disable plugins in my configuration script and
> yet build the plugins dynamically.  I searched through my installed
> files and didn't see anything that was obvious protocols.
> 
> Bill

hhmmm.  It shouldn't crash on no protocols.  Please submit a backtrace
of this crash to the bug tracker at http://developer.pidgin.im

thanks,
luke