[Telepathy] To add a new account, you first have to install a backend

[Alban Crequy]

On 10/29/07, Xavier Claessens <xclaesse at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Le dimanche 28 octobre 2007 à 22:05 -0400, Rainer Dorsch a écrit :
> > Hello,
> >
> > I did a compile of empathy svn on Debian etch in a side directory, something
> > along the lines
> >
> > export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/gtalk/lib/:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> > export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/gtalk/lib/pkgconfig
> >
> > deps="glib-2.14.2 libtelepathy-0.2.0 telepathy-mission-control-4.49
> > glib-2.14.2 gtk+-2.12.1 pango-1.18.3 telepathy-gabble-0.6.0.tar.gz
> > dbus-glib-0.74 telepathy-glib-0.6.0 telepathy-gabble-0.6.0"
> >
> > rm -rf /opt/gtalk empathy/
> >
> > for p in $deps; do
> >   rm -rf $p
> >   tar xvfj $p.tar.bz2
> >   cd $p
> >   ./configure --prefix=/opt/gtalk
> >   make
> >   make install
> >   cd ..
> > done
> >
> > date
> > svn co svn://svn.gnome.org/svn/empathy/trunk empathy
> > cd empathy
> > ./autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/gtalk
> > make
> > make install
> >
> > After that empathy starts up, but I cannot configure account. When I try to do
> > so, I get
> >
> > To add a new account, you first have to install a backend for each protocol
> > you want to use.
>
> That means Empathy don't find .profile files, or MissionControl don't
> find .manager files. You need to set XDG_DATA_DIRS env var to your
> prefix, or simply install empathy/gabble to /usr/local. See
> http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html#variables

Don't forget to add "/share" after the prefix in XDG_DATA_DIRS.

And XDG_DATA_DIRS must be set for the D-Bus daemon because even if
Empathy cause MC to start by D-Bus activation, MC is started by the
D-Bus daemon and MC will not inherit environment variables from
Empathy.

-- 
Alban