The libgnt library needs to be linked against the GNU version of libpanel.

This patch should be send upstream when sanitized into an acceptable form.

--- pidgin-2.11.0/configure.ac.orig 2016-09-02 14:27:14.528745431 +0000

+++ pidgin-2.11.0/configure.ac 2016-09-02 14:28:33.444799880 +0000

@@ -688,7 +688,7 @@

# ncursesw was not found. Look for plain old ncurses

enable_consoleui=yes

AC_CHECK_LIB(ncurses, initscr, [GNT_LIBS="-lncurses"], [enable_consoleui=no])

- AC_CHECK_LIB(panel, update_panels, [GNT_LIBS="$GNT_LIBS -lpanel"],

+ AC_CHECK_LIB(panel, update_panels, [GNT_LIBS="$GNT_LIBS -L/usr/gnu/lib/64 -R/usr/gnu/lib/64 -lpanel"],

[enable_consoleui=no], [$GNT_LIBS])

AC_DEFINE(NO_WIDECHAR, 1, [Define to 1 if you don't have wide-character support.])

if test x"$ac_ncurses_includes" != "x"; then