building pidgin-vv on Ubuntu 14.04

[Rodney D. Myers]

On Mon, 19 Oct 2015 19:54:54 +0300
ivan <mcvanili at yahoo.com> wrote:

> On 19.10.2015 02:21, Michael McConville wrote:
> > ivan wrote:
> >> I want to try Pidgin with voice and video support for video calls.
> >> However, it seems that there're no Pidgin vv builds for Ubuntu (or
> >> I haven't found one), so I've tried to build it by myself, but the
> >> make fails with
> >>
> >> /usr/bin/ld: gtkmedia.o: undefined reference to symbol
> >> 'XSetErrorHandler' //usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6: error
> >> adding symbols: DSO missing from command line
> >>
> >> How it is possible to solve this? I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 with
> >> pidgin-2.10.11
> > Sounds like a bug. What configure flags are you using? I'm assuming
> > the system has X Windows installed?
> The flags are
> --enable-vv --disable-screensaver --disable-gtkspell --disable-avahi 
> --disable-perl
> 
> As to X Windows I have xorg and xauth packages installed, these
> should provide functionality of X11

You also need the -dev packages for those pacjages

-- 
Rodney D. Myers <rod_dmyers at fastmail.fm> - kg6anx

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