hello,
i"ve build this port on my macppc and it is working great :)
hope to have it in the ports sometime.
best regards
thomas
On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 12:00:22PM +0200, viq wrote:
> I was trying to update silc-client to 1.0.3, but that didn't work that
> well (someone had problems running it on amd64), so I decided to play
> with this instead, and here are results of it. I'd call it a late
> alpha, the Makefile needs some cleanup (I left all the mess in there
> somewhat on purpose, so people can see what else I was trying to do
> there, and may offer better sugestions; also at first it was going to
> be a subpackage of irssi, and it shows I think).
>
> Couple of things about this port:
> First, most important one: I had to modify the patches somewhat, due
> to the issue with fuzzy patching on OpenBSD (and to add one line to
> one of them) - thus the file with patches is attached to this mail (I
> hope it will get through), and the Makefile for now points at my box
> to get them untill c0ffee will incorporate the changes.
> Second, run-depends. Those two perl modules are there so running the
> second of recomended scripts, silc-mime.pl will work. Or that could be
> moved to MESSAGE, something like "If you want to run this script you
> will need xx and yy".
> Third, there is a lot of patches left from normal irssi build (well,
> modified to fit the files after some of them are modified). Probably a
> lot of them are not needed, but I left them for now to have a
> consistent source with the irssi that gets installed.
> I rename the theme file to silc.theme, and install it and the script
> files as @sample to /etc/irssi/{themes,scripts}/ so they are more
> visible, but that's not really necessary.
> This port cannot coexist with silc-client, due to some files existing
> in same locations. I don't know how to fix this, if at all possible.
> And if not, should I add to makefile some information about
> conflicting packages?
>
> Please comment, test (amd64 is important, seeing as the silc-client
> port I tried to make didn't want to work there), flame, and generally
> enjoy ;)
> --
> viq
