Doesn't link with LDFLAGS="-Wl,--no-undefined -Wl,--as-needed" about pidgin-chime

[dwmw2]

Can we add -ldl unconditionally? At least it needs to go away for Windows, but aren't there some Unix platforms which have dlopen() in libc not in a separate library? I think we need a configure check for that, don't we?

[bgmilne]

Yep, we'll need a configure check for libdl for other Unix flavours.

[bgmilne]

Moving this discussion from the PR to the issue:

We can do the camel-1.2 thing slightly more easily by just adding it to the existing list of pkgconfig requirements for the evo plugin, that end up in $(EVOLUTION_LIBS). Fixed; thanks.

I tried that approach first, and it failed for me, because I didn't have a pkg-config file for libcamel, thus I switched to AC_SEARCH_LIBS. I will check again tonight.

So now we just have the plugin linking? Did you work out how that works for the other Pidgin (not purple) plugins?

I did notice this in the pidgin package itself.

There are a few other pidgin-* packages, but I am not sure which are actually pidgin UI plugins vs. libpurple plugins, but looking at some other random plugin-based package I am familiar with (e.g. this one), it should be possible.

I will try and conclude this tonight.

[bgmilne]

I tried that approach first, and it failed for me, because I didn't have a pkg-config file for libcamel, thus I switched to AC_SEARCH_LIBS. I will check again tonight.

Well, it works now :-)

So now we just have the plugin linking? Did you work out how that works for the other Pidgin (not purple) plugins?

I have looked at a few similar packages, and I think most of them aren't trying the same thing, or they don't get -Wl,--no-undefined as LDFLAGS to any plugins.

So, I think this is as good as we can get it for now.

[dwmw2]

Did you work out the libgadu one?