Building GAIM-1.1.1 on YDL-4

[Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D.]

I have successfully built GAIM-1.1.1 on YDL-4.

        "Gaim is a multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) client for
        Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows. It is compatible with AIM and
        ICQ (Oscar protocol), MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber,
        Gadu-Gadu, SILC, GroupWise Messenger, and Zephyr networks.
        
        Gaim users can log in to multiple accounts on multiple IM
        networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting
        with friends on AOL Instant Messenger, talking to a friend on
        Yahoo Messenger, and sitting in an IRC channel all at the same
        time.
        
        Gaim supports many features of the various networks, such as
        file transfer, away messages, typing notification, and MSN
        window closing notification. It also goes beyond that and
        provides many unique features. A few popular features are Buddy
        Pounces, which give the ability to notify you, send a message,
        play a sound, or run a program when a specific buddy goes away,
        signs online, or returns from idle; and plugins, consisting of
        text replacement, a buddy ticker, extended message notification,
        iconify on away, spell checking, tabbed conversations, and
        more."

YDL-4 ships with GAIM-0.81.

I downloaded the SRPM from the GAIM site at sourceforge.net

	http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gaim/gaim-1.1.1-0.src.rpm?download

[The SRPM on the Fedora development site had dependency requirements
that proved to be unnecessary.]


I unpacked the source, looked it over, and then decided to add Secure
IRC support available to GAIM. I downloaded and build Secure IRC from a
Fedora development site:

	http://ftp.sunsite.utk.edu/ftp/pub/linux/fedora/development/SRPMS/libsilc-0.9.12-7.src.rpm

The builds were uneventful. 

I tested GAIM by establishing a connection to 
	
	#yellowdog on irc.freenode.net


-Joseph

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joseph_sacco[at]comcast[dot]net