NEW/UPDATE:net/sic-1.1
Hello ports@ sic is minimalistic irc client. This port has been submitted at least four or five times in the past couple of years by various people but never committed. The only new thing here is that sic has a new version 1.1. I am resubmitting the port to create Internet archive. If somebody cares to commit even better. Cheers, Predrag sic-1.1.tgz Description: Binary data
Re: NEW/UPDATE:net/sic-1.1
Hi,
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 12:04:07PM -0400, Predrag Punosevac wrote:
sic is minimalistic irc client. This port has been submitted at least
four or five times in the past couple of years by various people but
never committed. The only new thing here is that sic has a new version
1.1. I am resubmitting the port to create Internet archive. If somebody
cares to commit even better.
- Don't patch the makefile or config.mk (unless you completely replace
it by something that works ;-) Instead, you can force some settings via
MAKE_FLAGS. For example, I did this:
V = .1
DISTNAME =sic-$V
...
CFLAGS += -I. -DVERSION=\\\$V\\\ -D_GNU_SOURCE
MAKE_FLAGS = CC=${CC} \
CFLAGS=${CFLAGS} \
LDFLAGS=${LDFLAGS}
This will also allow to override CC (in case one wants to experiment
with a different compiler).
- The suckless install target sucks (as always). Better write your own
do-install: that uses ${INSTALL_PROGRAM} resp. ${INSTALL_MAN},
which has the additional benefit that ${INSTALL_PROGRAM} automatically
strips the program unless DEBUG is defined. However, you also
have to get the version number into sic.1 (using a post-patch
target, for example).
- The man page claims that the default port is 6667, but actually sic
initializes the port variable to ircd and passes that as servname
to getaddrinfo(3) later. This doesn't work unless you have a
matching entry in services(5).
- Furthermore, if getaddrinfo(3) fails, sic uses strerror(3) instead of
gai_strerror(3) to produce an error message. This leads to totally
confusing error messages, like in:
$ sic -h 127.0.0.1
error: cannot resolve hostname '127.0.0.1': Invalid argument
Ciao,
Kili
Re: NEW/UPDATE:net/sic-1.1
Matthias Kilian k...@outback.escape.de wrote:
Hi,
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 12:04:07PM -0400, Predrag Punosevac wrote:
sic is minimalistic irc client. This port has been submitted at least
four or five times in the past couple of years by various people but
never committed. The only new thing here is that sic has a new version
1.1. I am resubmitting the port to create Internet archive. If somebody
cares to commit even better.
- Don't patch the makefile or config.mk (unless you completely replace
it by something that works ;-) Instead, you can force some settings via
MAKE_FLAGS. For example, I did this:
V = .1
DISTNAME = sic-$V
...
CFLAGS += -I. -DVERSION=\\\$V\\\ -D_GNU_SOURCE
MAKE_FLAGS =CC=${CC} \
CFLAGS=${CFLAGS} \
LDFLAGS=${LDFLAGS}
This will also allow to override CC (in case one wants to experiment
with a different compiler).
- The suckless install target sucks (as always). Better write your own
do-install: that uses ${INSTALL_PROGRAM} resp. ${INSTALL_MAN},
which has the additional benefit that ${INSTALL_PROGRAM} automatically
strips the program unless DEBUG is defined. However, you also
have to get the version number into sic.1 (using a post-patch
target, for example).
- The man page claims that the default port is 6667, but actually sic
initializes the port variable to ircd and passes that as servname
to getaddrinfo(3) later. This doesn't work unless you have a
matching entry in services(5).
- Furthermore, if getaddrinfo(3) fails, sic uses strerror(3) instead of
gai_strerror(3) to produce an error message. This leads to totally
confusing error messages, like in:
$ sic -h 127.0.0.1
error: cannot resolve hostname '127.0.0.1': Invalid argument
Ciao,
Kili
Great suggestions!!! I will try to get back to it in next two-three
days if for no other reason but play little bit more with Makefile which
is about as simple as it gets.
I wrote the patch for config.mk almost two years ago when I was
originally learning about porting software from
http://www.openbsd.org/papers/opencon07-portstutorial/index.html
I learnt quite a bit more about Make utility in the mean time and your
e-mail make so much sense.
Cheers,
Predrag
Re: NEW/UPDATE:net/sic-1.1
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 09:59:19PM -0400, Predrag Punosevac wrote: Great suggestions!!! I will try to get back to it in next two-three days if for no other reason but play little bit more with Makefile which is about as simple as it gets. For the getaddrinfo(3) bits and the port default, you may also want to send patches to upstream. Ciao, Kili
