ports/117401: Pidgin won't start (completely)

[Christian Baer]

>Number:         117401
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       Pidgin won't start (completely)
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Oct 22 13:30:01 UTC 2007
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Christian Baer
>Release:        6.2-RELEASE-p8
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD sunny.rz1.convenimus.net 6.2-RELEASE-p8 FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p8 #1: Mon Oct  8 20:43:09 CEST 2007     root at sunny.rz1.convenimus.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SUNNY  sparc64
>Description:
A full description of the problem was submitted to the freebsd-questions mailing list. The MID was <fd5tkd$2hh1$3 at nermal.rz1.convenimus.net>. Alternatively, this message can also be viewed here:

http://www.nabble.com/Getting-pidgin(1)-to-run-(sparc-issue-)...-t4504754.html

The logs in this report are added as links to my webserver and I will keep them online for a while yet - if someone actually show interest in this issue.

I am not sure if this is an issue with the sparc64 port of FreeBSD or with pidgin itself (with FreeBSD/sparc64). I have addressed the issue on the Pidgin mailing list too and did get feedback that I am not the only person experiencing this problem when using FreeBSD/sparc64.
>How-To-Repeat:
Build and run Pidgin (IM) on sparc64. I have a u60 but I have reports that a U10 gets the same result
>Fix:


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