+ Builds and installs. Works so with IRC. - does not install pidgin.1 in doc/Makefile. Why? finch does it. - options.mk: is this sufficient? - gstreamer should be a suggested option - pidgin/Makefile.am, pidgin/Makefile.in should be patched to use an already installed libpurple ("pkg-config --libs purple", "pkg-config --cflags purple") to avoid the hack of linking libpurple.la from the .buildlink directory.