Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2011 17:41:10 -0700 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> Cc: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: enigmail 1.2 Message-ID: <4E125DA6.6020306@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4E125CC0.3000400@bsdforen.de> References: <4E11FB6E.4080203@bsdforen.de> <4E12388E.6090707@gmx.de> <4E125CC0.3000400@bsdforen.de>
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On 07/04/2011 17:37, Dominic Fandrey wrote:
> OK, I got it, solution at the end.
>
> On 05/07/2011 00:02, Matthias Andree wrote:
>> Am 04.07.2011 19:42, schrieb Dominic Fandrey:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I got enigmail 1.2 to build by changing the gecko extract dependency
>>> target from configure to build.
>>>
>>> It installs and runs, but it always claims the gpg agent cannot
>>> be found. Even when I configure it manually.
>>>
>>> I'm out of ideas. Any suggestions?
>>
>> Asking the obvious: do you have ${LOCALBASE}/bin/gpg-agent (from
>> security/gnupg)?
>
> Yes.
>
>> ...
>
> The solution was to start gpg-agent and populate the
> GPG_AGENT_INFO environment variable. The most convenient way for
> me to do this was to change my .xsession:
>
> exec /usr/local/bin/gpg-agent --daemon /usr/local/bin/mywm
You may find this useful:
http://dougbarton.us/PGP/gpg-agent.html
hth,
Doug
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