Building Pidgin 2 from mercurial on Ubuntu 12.04

Geoffrey De Belie computergeoffrey at zoho.com
Wed Sep 16 08:24:24 EDT 2015


Hi

I'm trying to compile Pidgin 2.

I did this:

hg clone https://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main release-2.x.y
cd release-2.x.y
bash autogen.sh --disable-kwallet

To this point, everything worked.
The make command was less succesful. Any idea? Is this a bug?

make[2]: Entering directory `/home/geoffrey/release-2.x.y/pidgin'
GEN gtkdebug.html.h
make all-recursive
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/geoffrey/release-2.x.y/pidgin'
Making all in .
make[4]: Entering directory `/home/geoffrey/release-2.x.y/pidgin'
CC pidginstock.lo
CC gtkaccount.lo
CC gtkblist.lo
CC gtkblist-theme.lo
CC gtkblist-theme-loader.lo
CC gtkcellrendererexpander.lo
CC gtkcertmgr.lo
CC gtkconn.lo
CC gtkconv.lo
gtkconv.c: In function 'resize_webview_cb':
gtkconv.c:4948:10: warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type [enabled by default]
gtkconv.c:4951:2: warning: passing argument 1 of 'pidgin_webview_get_DOM_height' from incompatible pointer type [enabled by default]
gtkwebview.h:602:1: note: expected 'struct PidginWebView *' but argument is of type 'struct WebKitWebView *'
gtkconv.c:4962:2: warning: passing argument 1 of 'pidgin_webview_get_font_size' from incompatible pointer type [enabled by default]
gtkwebview.h:613:1: note: expected 'struct PidginWebView *' but argument is of type 'struct WebKitWebView *'
gtkconv.c:4971:3: error: implicit declaration of function 'gtk_widget_get_allocated_height' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
gtkconv.c:4971:3: warning: passing argument 1 of 'pidgin_webview_get_toolbar' from incompatible pointer type [enabled by default]
gtkwebview.h:672:1: note: expected 'struct PidginWebView *' but argument is of type 'struct WebKitWebView *'
cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
make[4]: *** [gtkconv.lo] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/geoffrey/release-2.x.y/pidgin'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/geoffrey/release-2.x.y/pidgin'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/geoffrey/release-2.x.y/pidgin'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/geoffrey/release-2.x.y'
make: *** [all] Error 2 

Kind regards,
Geoffrey De Belie



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