valga / bitlbee-facebook

Facebook protocol plugin for BitlBee

The Facebook protocol plugin for bitlbee. This plugin uses the Facebook Mobile API.

Usage

General usage instructions are available in the bitlbee wiki:

https://wiki.bitlbee.org/HowtoFacebookMQTT

Installing from APT repo

An APT repo for several recent debian/ubuntu versions is available here:

https://jgeboski.github.io/

Building from source

Make sure bitlbee and its headers have been installed. If bitlbee came from the distribution's repository, it will most likely need the development package, usually bitlbee-dev.

If bitlbee was built by hand (or alike via a script), ensure the make target install-dev is invoked. This target is not called by default, and will install the headers that are needed.

Do not use the source tree headers unless you know what you are doing. This can lead to mismatched header versions, which often times will lead to bad things.

$ git clone https://github.com/jgeboski/bitlbee-facebook.git
$ cd bitlbee-facebook

With a "global" (or system) bitlbee installation:

$ ./autogen.sh
$ make
$ make install

Otherwise, before running those commands, set PKG_CONFIG_PATH to the path to the bitlbee.pc file. For example:

$ export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/

Debugging

One of the two supported environment variables can be defined to enable debugging output. This can be used in unison with debuggers such as GDB, which should enable easier tracing of bugs.

When posting to the issue tracker, please ensure any sensitive information has been stripped.

For bitlbee and the plugin:

$ export BITLBEE_DEBUG=1
OR
$ BITLBEE_DEBUG=1 gdb ...

For just the plugin:

$ export BITLBEE_DEBUG_FACEBOOK=1
OR
$ BITLBEE_DEBUG_FACEBOOK=1 gdb ...

Obtaining a GDB backtrace:

$ gdb \
    -ex 'handle SIGPIPE nostop noprint pass' \
    -ex 'break g_log' -ex run -ex bt \
    --args /usr/sbin/bitlbee -Dnvc /etc/bitlbee/bitlbee.conf