I was going to provide details for compiling GAIM 2 / Pidgin on Solaris 10, as I did for GAIM 1.3.0 - 1.5 in my article entitled "HOWTO: Compile GAIM on Solaris 10", but this no longer necessary as GAIM is upgraded to Pidgin on Solaris 10 when patch 119548-11 (SPARC) or 119549-11 (x86) is applied.