Problem building pidgin (talkatu)

[Gary Kramlich]

What branch are you on? Bitbucket removed mercurial support multiple years
ago.. Or more specifically, where did you clone pidgin from? The canonical
repository is at https://keep.imfreedom.org/pidgin/pidgin/ and the default
branch is up to date and pointing to the proper talkatu repository at
https://keep.imfreedom.org/talkatu/talkatu.

On Sun, Apr 3, 2022 at 1:46 PM Konstantin Kharlamov <hi-angel at yandex.ru>
wrote:

> Regarding the error: it is trying to fetch talkatu repo, but the repo was
> deleted, which is why you're getting a 404. This really should be reported
> to
> the developers. It is trivial to fix: just replace (I presume in
> meson.build,
> but am not sure, you might want to grep for the string over the sources)
> the
>
>         https://bitbucket.com/pidgin/talkatu
>
> with
>
>         https://keep.imfreedom.org/talkatu/talkatu/
>
> that's the new URL of the repo.
>
> With that said: I am not sure you're really doing the correct thing. You
> see,
> you're trying to build a 3.0 version of Pidgin, that's the development
> version,
> which AFAIK has major changes to plugin API. Latest stable Pidgin release
> is
> 2.14.8.
>
> Is there any particular reason you're trying to build Pidgin from sources?
> It is
> usually in repositories of all distros, so there should be no reason in
> doing
> that other than wanting to do the Pidgin development (not even a plugin
> development, that one doesn't require building Pidgin from sources).
>
> On Sun, 2022-04-03 at 14:19 -0400, Ralph Hyre (edu edition) wrote:
> > I've not seen 400 errors before, but it seems that the attempt to build
> > talkatu - as part of a pidgin source build, is causing one.
> >
> > ralphw7 at asimov:~/src/pidgin/Pidgin-master$ meson build
> > The Meson build system
> > Version: 0.53.2
> > Source dir: /home/ralphw7/src/pidgin/Pidgin-master
> > Build dir: /home/ralphw7/src/pidgin/Pidgin-master/build
> > Build type: native build
> > Project name: pidgin
> > Project version: 3.0.0-devel
> > C compiler for the host machine: cc (gcc 9.4.0 "cc (Ubuntu
> > 9.4.0-1ubuntu1~20.04.1) 9.4.0")
> > C linker for the host machine: cc ld.bfd 2.34
> > Host machine cpu family: x86_64
> > Host machine cpu: x86_64
> > Program sed found: YES (/usr/bin/sed)
> > Program mkmesonconf.py found: YES
> > (/home/ralphw7/src/pidgin/Pidgin-master/mkmesonconf.py)
> > Has header "sys/wait.h" : YES
> > Has header "fcntl.h" : YES
> > Has header "unistd.h" : YES
> > Has header "stdint.h" : YES
> > Checking for size of "time_t" : 8
> > Checking for function "inet_aton" : YES
> > Checking for function "gethostent" : YES
> > Checking for function "socket" : YES
> > Checking for function "getaddrinfo" : YES
> > Checking for function "inet_ntop" : YES
> > Checking for function "getifaddrs" : YES
> > Header <sys/socket.h> has symbol "socklen_t" : YES
> > Checking whether type "struct sockaddr" has member "sa_len" : NO
> > Header <netinet/in.h> has symbol "IPV6_V6ONLY" : YES
> > Library m found: YES
> > Found pkg-config: /usr/bin/pkg-config (0.29.1)
> > Run-time dependency glib-2.0 found: YES 2.64.6
> > Run-time dependency gio-2.0 found: YES 2.64.6
> > Run-time dependency gobject-2.0 found: YES 2.64.6
> > Run-time dependency gthread-2.0 found: YES 2.64.6
> > Found CMake: /usr/bin/cmake (3.16.3)
> > Run-time dependency gobject-introspection-1.0 found: NO (tried pkgconfig
> > and cmake)
> > Run-time dependency gtk+-3.0 found: YES 3.24.20
> > Run-time dependency talkatu found: NO (tried pkgconfig and cmake)
> > abort: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/mesonbuild/mesonmain.py", line
> 129,
> > in run
> >     return options.run_func(options)
> >   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/mesonbuild/msetup.py", line 245,
> in
> > run
> >     app.generate()
> >   ... more python stack trace
> >   File "/usr/lib/python3.8/subprocess.py", line 364, in check_call
> >     raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd)
> > subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['/usr/bin/hg', 'clone', '
> > https://bitbucket.com/pidgin/talkatu', 'talkatu']' returned non-zero
> exit
> > status 255.
> >
> > What's the run-time dependency trying to be resolved here?
> >
> > All I had to do so far, was install gtk3 and the meson build environment.
> >
> > I'm on ubuntu 20.04:lsb_release -a
> > No LSB modules are available.
> > Distributor ID: Ubuntu
> > Description: Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS
> > Release: 20.04
> > Codename: focal
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