On Thursday 30 December 2004 01:25, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> Context: Fedora Core 3 dropped LICQ.  I'd like to have it on FC3.  So
> I'm exploring how to get it.  Up until now, I know nothing about LICQ
> development.  I'm even going to report trivial problems since you are
> only ignorant once.
>
> Although all I'm doing is complaining, I'm very grateful for all the
> work you have put into this.  It's just that there is no need to talk
> about what works.
>
> 1) http://licq.wibble.net/faqs.php displays as raw HTML on my firefox.
>    This is true of other pages on this site.
>    http://www.licq.org/faqs.php displays properly.
>    I don't know why and have not investigated.

Hm, a broken mirror :(

> 2) http://www.licq.org/contact.php does not list the mailing lists.
>    I think that it should.

Good idea, i fixed it already.

> 3) [Jon has fixed this one.]
>    http://www.licq.org/help.php has a broken link to the "Licq Mailing
>    List": http://www.licq.org/info.html#lml
>
>    I found this list via google.
>
> 4) Fedora Core 3 on x86-64 can also run FC3 binaries for regular x86.  I
>    tried licq-1.3.0-1.fc2.i386.rpm but it would not install -- missing
>    dependencies.  That is reasonable (not a bug).
>
> 5) I downloaded licq-1.3.0-1.fc2.src.rpm in the hope that I could rebuild
>    from source.  This file appears to be corrupt:
>
>  $ rpm --checksig licq-1.3.0-1.fc2.src.rpm
>  licq-1.3.0-1.fc2.src.rpm: sha1 MD5 NOT OK
>
>    [Jon says that RPMs are not really supported -- user submissions
>    are posted.  In that case, I suggest that this RPM should be
>    removed because it is broken.  That probably means that the
>    binary RPM should be removed too since it would be then hard
>    to conform with the GPL for the binary RPM.]
>
> 6) I'm building 1.3.0 from the tarball.  doc/README says to do
>    configure and make as root.  It would be better if one could
>    do that as an ordinary user.  I would bet that that would work.
>    Only "make install" is likely to need root.

That's true. I just fixed it in CVS.

> 7) The "make" yielded several warnings.  I think that the code should
>    be fixed.  Warning: I'm not a C++ programmer.
>
>    icqd-tcp.cpp:429: warning: int format, different type arg (arg 3)
>  users.size() probably yields a size_t, not an int.
>  One easy fix: cast users.size() to int.
>  Better fix: replace %d with something more appropriate.
>
>    utility.cpp:241: warning: int format, different type arg (arg 4)
>    message.cpp:762: warning: int format, different type arg (arg 3)
>    icqd-chat.cpp:1098: warning: int format, different type arg (arg 4)
>  These are probably all like the previous one
>
>
>    countrycodes.c:287: warning: implicit declaration of function
> `strcasecmp' Missing #include <string.h>
>
>    rtf.ll:181: warning: unused variable 'c'
>    rtf.ll:191: warning: unused variable 'c'
>  Uses of these variables are commented out.
>  Perhaps these definitions should be commented out as well
>  (the lines are adjacent).

Hm, we have to look at this.

> 8) In building plugins/qt-gui, I got the following warning:
>
>    In file included from catdlg.cpp:147:
>    catdlg.moc:135:22: warning: no newline at end of file
>
>    Actually, catdlg.moc does end in a newline.
>    catdlg.cpp does not end in a newline.  This should be fixed.
>    And then so should GCC -- its message is confused.

Ok, this is now fixed.

> I seem to have a working LICQ!  To actually test it, I'll need to
> await my user.
>
> It isn't clear how to migrate an old .licq to 1.30.  Certainly, a pure
> copy does not work (hard to copy a FIFO).  Also, the plugin names are
> in a configuration file, and they've changed.

Hm, no, they did not change. Licq does update the configuration files 
automatically when it detects old config-files. 

Well, have a happy new year, i'm off now ;-)
Thanks for all your reports!

Bye,
Thomas

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