[Pidgin] #3798: portability patch

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#3798: portability patch
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  Reporter:  pogma         |       Owner:  lschiere
      Type:  patch         |      Status:  new     
  Priority:  minor         |   Milestone:          
 Component:  unclassified  |     Version:  2.2.2   
Resolution:                |    Keywords:          
   Pending:  0             |  
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Comment (by pogma):

 Replying to [comment:6 rlaager]:

 > I did a *QUICK* read-through of this patch... The biggest concern I have
 right now is with the GnuTLS changes. I don't see why that was done. If a
 system has no entropy gathering device, why not just disable SSL support
 at compile-time? Either way, libgcrypt should be fixed to avoid calling
 exit() and instead return failure for the application to handle.

 This was reported to the libgcrypt maintainers when we had the same issue
 with curl http://curl.haxx.se/mail/archive-2007-04/0099.html
 http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gcrypt-devel/2007-April/001124.html

 The systems that do not have an OS supplied EGD socket can run PRNGD, but
 it is possible that the daemon is not running, or is running with the
 socket at a different path than was compiled into libgcrypt. This is no
 reason to not be able to run pidgin and chat to people using AIM or
 another non-TLS using protocol, in my opinion.

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