Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 05:26:55 -0700 From: "Aaron Granick" <agranick@UCSD.Edu> To: "Andreas Klemm" <andreas@klemm.gtn.com>, "Alex Zepeda" <garbanzo@hooked.net> Cc: <ports@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: nasty problem to compile kirc-0.9.5-04 under FreeBSD 3.1-STABLE Message-ID: <000801be8f16$e8c9e2f0$d19b1e18@penguin.san.rr.com>
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You have my full blessings to remove it from the port directory. Since kIRC
was released there have been better IRC clients using KDE libraries
released, and I will likely never revisit the kIRC code. kIRC was a
learning experience for me, and took a great deal of my time, but I don't
have any desire to work with it any further. If I was going to work on an
IRC client for Unix again (which i probably won't), I would use kIRC as a
source of ideas and write a new app completely from scratch. There are some
bugs in kIRC which no man could fix because the design is fundamentally
flawed. I never want to see another bug report on it. =)
If someone wants to take over the code and thinks there is something worth
salvaging, they have my full blessing, but I want nothing more to do with
it.
Thanks,
Aaron
-----Original Message-----
From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com>
To: Aaron Granick <agranick@ucsd.edu>; Alex Zepeda <garbanzo@hooked.net>
Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG <ports@FreeBSD.ORG>
Date: Sunday, April 25, 1999 3:32 AM
Subject: Re: nasty problem to compile kirc-0.9.5-04 under FreeBSD 3.1-STABLE
|On Sat, Apr 24, 1999 at 03:30:11AM -0700, Aaron Granick wrote:
|> I believe this is a problem because the KDE API has changed since kIRC
was
|> released...they moved the kdedir() function from public to protected
status.
|> Unfortunately, I haven't worked with KDE in some time so I don't know how
to
|> fix this error. You could replace the call with a hardcoded location for
|> the KDE directory, or look it up as a shell variable, but there is
probably
|> a new 'official' way of retrieving the KDE directory path, but I dont'
know
|> what it is.
|>
|> Aaron
|
|On Sat, Apr 24, 1999 at 03:23:28PM -0700, Alex Zepeda wrote:
|> Aaron has for quite a while now wished to not receive mail concerning
|> kIRC, and for that matter I'm no longer maintaining kIRC. It's no longer
|> supported, and to compile it would require pre KDE 1.0 libs, and Qt 1.33.
|
|Hi folks,
|
|finally I got around this little failure, so that kirc compiles.
|A script substitutes !!PREFIX!! just before compilation, so that
|kirc port is fully location independent (just for the case that
|a user wants a different installation path than /usr/local).
|
|Additionally there was a '}' missing in DCC.cpp. Wonder how this
|version could have been released, since kdcc was in fact not
|compileable ;-)
|
|--- kirc/defs.h.orig Sun Apr 25 11:43:46 1999
|+++ kirc/defs.h Sun Apr 25 11:52:34 1999
|@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
| #define IRC_CONFIG_H
|
| #define APPNAME "kIRC"
|+#define KDEDIR "!!PREFIX!!"
| #define IRCDIR "share/apps/kirc"
| #define ICONDIR "share/apps/kirc/icons"
| #define IRCHOMEDIR ".kde/share/apps/kirc"
|--- kirc/irc.cpp.orig Sun Apr 25 11:45:13 1999
|+++ kirc/irc.cpp Sun Apr 25 11:47:56 1999
|@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@
| {
| ParseArguments(argc, argv);
| Settings::fileDir.sprintf("%s/%s", QDir::homeDirPath().data(),
IRCHOMEDIR);
|- Settings::sysFileDir.sprintf("%s/%s", KApplication::kdedir().data(),
IRCDIR);
|+ Settings::sysFileDir.sprintf("%s/%s", KDEDIR, IRCDIR);
| app = new IrcApp( argc, argv, "kirc");
| //signal (SIGSEGV, HandleSegFault); // redirect our segfaults
| app->Go();
|--- kdcc/DCC.cpp.orig Sun Apr 25 12:09:14 1999
|+++ kdcc/DCC.cpp Sun Apr 25 12:09:33 1999
|@@ -210,6 +210,7 @@
|
| if (Settings::mode == "CHAT") {
| debug(">connect %s %u", Settings::nick.data(), fd);
|+ }
| return fd;
| }
|
|But now after installation other (unexpected) problems arise.
|
|andreas@titan{95} $ kirc
|QPopupMenu: (unnamed) Popup has invalid menu item
|QPopupMenu: (unnamed) Popup has invalid menu item
|QPopupMenu: (unnamed) Popup has invalid menu item
|QPopupMenu: (unnamed) Popup has invalid menu item
|QPopupMenu: (unnamed) Popup has invalid menu item
|QPopupMenu: (unnamed) Popup has invalid menu item
|X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
| Major opcode: 2
|Abbruch (core dumped)
|Exit 134
|
|Perhaps this is the result of what you said, Alex, that
|kirc perhaps really needs an older KDE version and an
|older QT lib. Unfortunately we dropped the older QT version
|in the FreeBSD ports collection, since no application seemed
|to use/need it. During that time (when the decision has been
|made), kirc already was flagged BROKEN, because of the compilation
|errors ....
|
|Now for me the question arises, if we should bring back qt1.33
|and try it again to compile kirc ... or if not.
|
|Sad but true ... as far as I see kirc seems to be a little
|so to say -> unmaintained ...
|
|Well, what's the status now ...
|I saw in your signal handler code, that in case of an error the
|user sees a messages, send me a bug report, etc ....
|
|Just in case, we would bring kirc to run, is it wanted by the
|author, to receive mails with bugreports ?
|
|Or does the author not want to receive any messages about kirc,
|so that it's really unmaintained ???
|
|I'm not sure, but would it be perhaps a wise decision, to drop
|perhaps kirc from the ports collection, since nobody maintains
|it, and you know how users are, if things are not working
|well ....
|
|To sum it up ... what do _YOU_ think would be a good decision
|for kirc in the FreeBSD ports collection ???
|
|Or is there any taker, who could perhaps bring kirc to libqt 1.42
|and KDE 1.1 ? [ Cc'd to ports ]
|
| Andreas ///
|
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|Andreas Klemm http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~andreas
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