Current version of pidgin seems to fail to build: http://people.freebsd.org/~sbruno/pidgin-2.10.9_3.log gtkmain.o: In function `main': /wrkdirs/usr/ports/net-im/pidgin/work/pidgin-2.10.9/pidgin/gtkmain.c:824: undefined reference to `purple_dbus_get_connection' gtkmedia.o: In function `pidgin_medias_init': /wrkdirs/usr/ports/net-im/pidgin/work/pidgin-2.10.9/pidgin/gtkmedia.c:1171: undefined reference to `purple_media_element_info_get_type' /wrkdirs/usr/ports/net-im/pidgin/work/pidgin-2.10.9/pidgin/gtkmedia.c:1180: undefined reference to `purple_media_element_info_get_type' /wrkdirs/usr/ports/net-im/pidgin/work/pidgin-2.10.9/pidgin/gtkmedia.c:1188: undefined reference to `purple_media_element_info_get_type' /wrkdirs/usr/ports/net-im/pidgin/work/pidgin-2.10.9/pidgin/gtkmedia.c:1197: undefined reference to `purple_media_element_info_get_type' /wrkdirs/usr/ports/net-im/pidgin/work/pidgin-2.10.9/pidgin/gtkmedia.c:1216: undefined reference to `purple_media_manager_set_active_element' /wrkdirs/usr/ports/net-im/pidgin/work/pidgin-2.10.9/pidgin/gtkmedia.c:1217: undefined reference to `purple_media_manager_set_active_element' /wrkdirs/usr/ports/net-im/pidgin/work/pidgin-2.10.9/pidgin/gtkmedia.c:1218: undefined reference to `purple_media_manager_set_active_element' /wrkdirs/usr/ports/net-im/pidgin/work/pidgin-2.10.9/pidgin/gtkmedia.c:1219: undefined reference to `purple_media_manager_set_active_element' gtkmedia.o: In function `pidgin_media_disconnect_levels': /wrkdirs/usr/ports/net-im/pidgin/work/pidgin-2.10.9/pidgin/gtkmedia.c:466: undefined reference to `purple_media_manager_get_pipeline' cc: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation) gmake[2]: *** [pidgin] Error 1 gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/wrkdirs/usr/ports/net-im/pidgin/work/pidgin-2.10.9/pidgin' gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/wrkdirs/usr/ports/net-im/pidgin/work/pidgin-2.10.9/pidgin' *** Error code 1 Stop. make: stopped in /usr/ports/net-im/pidgin ====>> Cleaning up wrkdir ===> Cleaning for pidgin-2.10.9_3 build of /usr/ports/net-im/pidgin ended at Fri Jun 13 08:22:44 PDT 2014 build time: 00:01:59 !!! build failure encountered !!!
What it looks like is that you built libpurple without gstreamer, but you're now building pidgin with gstreamer. Either rebuild libpurple with gstreamer, or disable it for pidgin.
ah, I certainly did, for finch as it doesn't make sense there. But, yes. I did do that. thanks!
Libpurple needed gst support.