[RealityCheck]

Has anyone been able to build either BX or Irssi under 10.2.4, using the Dec2002 DevTools? I keep getting errors up the wahzoo, and Fink has been moody for me. Any advice would be welcome on workarounds.

[entrox]

Yes, right now I'm using an irssi, which I compiled 3 days ago using the 12/2002 DevTools from fink.

irssi version is 0.8.6 (20021117 1611)
fink package manager is at 0.11.2
fink distribution is 0.5.1cvs

Hope that helps.

[aquaclear]

Can someone give a good comparison betweent BitchX and irssi?

[Sarah31]

bitchX does not have good /keybindings.
irssi can change themes.
iirc you cannot connect to other servers while maintaining connection to existing servers in bitchx and in irssi you can.

those are a few. in general irssi just handles better imho. oh and it is not to hard to compile without fink you just need to know what flags to use to build and/or configure options. it took me a couple of days to figure out but i got it.

[dumkwestchun]

Originally posted by RealityCheck:
Has anyone been able to build either BX or Irssi under 10.2.4, using the Dec2002 DevTools? I keep getting errors up the wahzoo, and Fink has been moody for me. Any advice would be welcome on workarounds.

My last two installations of Fink didn't work, so I compiled BitchX from source and that seemed to be fairly fun, painless and quick. My Developer tools seem to be vintage Dec 2002 also.



Now if only I could figure out why it says my server is irc.prison.net ?
-- which doesn't sound too friendly.?!?

And how to register a nick?

I keep forgetting how to use it.

Yours,
Dumkwestchun

[Sarah31]

Originally posted by RealityCheck:
Has anyone been able to build either BX or Irssi under 10.2.4, using the Dec2002 DevTools? I keep getting errors up the wahzoo, and Fink has been moody for me. Any advice would be welcome on workarounds.

my best recommendation is to make an alias in your shell dotfile (ie .tcshrc):

alias make1 'make CC=" cc -no-cpp-precomp -D_INTL_REDIRECT_MACROS"'

then restart. then when you go to issue make use your alias make1 and the entire line is inputted saving you the time that it takes to type out " make CC=blah..."

this should get rid of most of your compile errors. other than that you have to make sure you have the necessary depends to build either one. when i built irssi it alone did not require to many depends but it's depends require more depends which i did not have. and so forth.

it was taking a long time until i started using those CFLAGS in the alias.

[[APi]TheMan]

Originally posted by dumkwestchun:
My last two installations of Fink didn't work, so I compiled BitchX from source and that seemed to be fairly fun, painless and quick. My Developer tools seem to be vintage Dec 2002 also.

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Now if only I could figure out why it says my server is irc.prison.net ?
-- which doesn't sound too friendly.?!?

And how to register a nick?

I keep forgetting how to use it.

irc.prison.net is an Efnet server I believe.

To regisiter your nick use NickServ. The syntax should be something like:
/msg nickserv register <nick> <e-mail address> <password>

Where you fill in the correct information, minus the < and the > of course.

If that nickserv syntax doesn't work, /msg nickserv help should do the trick.

[[APi]TheMan]

Originally posted by RealityCheck:
Has anyone been able to build either BX or Irssi under 10.2.4, using the Dec2002 DevTools? I keep getting errors up the wahzoo, and Fink has been moody for me. Any advice would be welcome on workarounds.

Have you tried any of the binary installers in the MacOSX section on http://www.bitchx.org/download.php ?