XChat is an IRC chat program. It allows you to join multiple IRC channels (chat rooms) at the same time, talk publicly, have private one-on-one conversations, etc. File transfers are also possible.
Download (HTTP): http://www.xchat.org/files/source/2.8/xchat-2.8.4.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.linux.ee/pub/gentoo/distfiles/distfiles/xchat-2.8.4.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 66d60febc62a01bafac9bb3a35fb37ae
Download size: 1.3 MB
Estimated disk space required: 33 MB
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU
D-Bus GLib Bindings-0.74, OpenSSL-0.9.8g, Python-2.5.2, Tcl-8.4.18, GConf-2.18.0.1, and libsexy or GtkSpell (not recommended)
Note that using libsexy for spell checking requires Enchant at run-time. Aspell-0.60.5 is just one of many backend spell libraries Enchant can use. See the Enchant project page (URL above) for additional information about the available backends.
User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/xchat
Install XChat by running the following commands:
patch -Np1 -i ../xc284-scrollbmkdir.diff &&
./configure --prefix=/usr \
--sysconfdir=/etc/gnome/2.18.3 \
--enable-shm &&
make
This package does not come with a test suite.
Now, as the root user:
make install &&
install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/xchat-2.8.4 &&
install -v -m644 README faq.html \
/usr/share/doc/xchat-2.8.4
--sysconfdir=/etc/gnome/2.18.3: This
parameter causes the configuration files to be installed in
/etc/gnome/2.18.3 instead of
$GNOME_PREFIX/etc. Additionally (if
applicable), the parameter ensures that the GConf-2 database is correctly updated.
--enable-shm: This
parameter is used to enable XShm for fast tinting.
Last updated on 2007-08-08 13:50:38 -0500