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#1 2017-05-04 04:11:15

ashyggdrasil
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Registered: 2017-05-03
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Xchat

Hello everyone. I have been using xchat for 2 years. And I really enjoy it. I just installed Arch Linux 64 bit. I do love it and everything works fine so far. I downloaded the tar, ./configure works fine, but this is the output of make:

https://justpaste.it/168c8

Any chance to get it working in Arch, please ?

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#2 2017-05-04 04:24:06

Ropid
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Registered: 2015-03-09
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Re: Xchat

Check out "hexchat". It's based on xchat. There's a package for hexchat, so you don't have to compile anything yourself.

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#3 2017-05-04 04:43:39

Jristz
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Registered: 2011-06-11
Posts: 1,022

Re: Xchat

chat was forked into Hexchat when Xchat start having problems compilling.
IS officially the unofficial spiritual successor


Well, I suppose that this is somekind of signature, no?

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#4 2017-05-04 04:54:07

ashyggdrasil
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Re: Xchat

Hi again. Thanks for the answers. I didn't like the Hexchat. I prefer Xchat over it smile I don't know much about compiling so I just wanted to understand what is  ' #error "Only <glib.h> can be included directly." exactly. Thank you anyway!

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#5 2017-05-04 05:24:43

Joel
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Posts: 121

Re: Xchat

Means that you are compiling an old glib coded with new glib. You can:
1.- Change all the entries with error and change to #include <glib.h> on each xchat code.
2.- Find the archlinux package for the last xchat version binaries
3.- Use hexchat
4.- Find an alternative irc client


* PC: Intel Core 2 DUO E6550 @ 2.33 GHz with 2 GB RAM: Archlinux-i686 with xfce4.
* Laptop: Intel Core 2 DUO T6600 @ 2.20 GHz with 4 GB RAM: Archlinux-x86-64 with xfce4.
* AUR contributor.

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#6 2017-05-04 05:47:19

jasonwryan
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Re: Xchat

Moving to AUR Issues...


Arch + dwm   •   Mercurial repos  •   Surfraw

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#7 2017-05-04 09:08:07

Alad
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Re: Xchat

I'm rather mystified why you'd prefer xchat over hexchat since both essentially have the same user interface. IRC is also not the medium where you can safely use a 7 year old client with amassed security vulnerabilities (e.g. CVE-2013-7449 and CVE-2011-5129).


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#8 2017-05-08 15:30:04

ashyggdrasil
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Registered: 2017-05-03
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Re: Xchat

hi again. i replaced all

#include <glib/xxx.h>

entries with

#include <glib.h>

as @Joel talked about. Now I'm getting this while making

server.c: In function ‘ssl_cb_verify’:
server.c:601:47: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type ‘X509_STORE_CTX {aka struct x509_store_ctx_st}’
  X509_NAME_oneline (X509_get_subject_name (ctx->current_cert), subject,
                                               ^~
server.c: In function ‘ssl_do_connect’:
server.c:754:16: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type ‘SSL {aka struct ssl_st}’
   if (serv->ssl->session && serv->ssl->session->time + SSLTMOUT < time (NULL))
                ^~
server.c: In function ‘server_read_child’:
server.c:914:8: warning: unused variable ‘p’ [-Wunused-variable]
  char *p;
        ^

here server.c https://justpaste.it/16ek4
so I'm not that good with codes and I don't know what this error is telling actually. Any ideas ?

Last edited by ashyggdrasil (2017-05-08 15:58:31)

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#9 2017-05-08 16:59:24

metak
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Registered: 2009-09-27
Posts: 198

Re: Xchat

Like others said before, xchat is a dead project and you should consider switching to another irc client. That said...
If you really want to use it then I suggest you take a look at fedora and debian patches for xchat?

http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/xchat.git/tree/
http://sources.debian.net/patches/xchat/2.8.8-7.3/

There are glib and ssl3 patches that might fix your issues?

Last edited by metak (2017-05-08 17:50:06)

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#10 2017-05-15 22:45:10

RoundCube
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Registered: 2016-05-14
Posts: 42

Re: Xchat

As someone who just recently switched to hexchat:

There's not much of difference between hexchat and xchat
The quit/joins messages are now brownish, if someone pings you it's green.. the user interface looks the same.
You can move your xchat config to hexchat:

cp -R ~/.xchat2 ~/.config/hexchat
mv ~/.config/hexchat/xchat.conf ~/.config/hexchat/hexchat.conf
mv ~/.config/hexchat/servlist_.conf ~/.config/hexchat/servlist.conf
mv ~/.config/hexchat/xchatlogs ~/.config/hexchat/logs 
sed -i 's/,#/\nJ=#/g' ~/.config/hexchat/servlist.conf 
(source: https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/HexChat/#Migration-von-XChat)

After having used both in the last weeks, the only reason I see to stay with xchat would be the logo.

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#11 2017-05-21 07:11:37

ashyggdrasil
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Registered: 2017-05-03
Posts: 16

Re: Xchat

thank you! i will try it out asap.

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#12 2017-05-21 11:06:19

ugjka
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Re: Xchat


https://ugjka.net
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