Hi,

this is my port of ircii-2.8 for MiNT using MiNT-Net.

It was compiled using gcc-2.5.8 with the MiNT library PL46, the
socket library 0.72 and the curses/termcap library PL16.

The default irc server in this binary is just `irc'. So you can easily
put your default irc server in your /etc/hosts (if your nameserver does
not define `irc.your.domain' for you). Here are some German irc servers:

129.13.99.15	irc.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de
131.188.61.13	irc.uni-erlangen.de
139.30.2.251	irc.informatik.uni-rostock.de
129.69.221.120	irc.rus.uni-stuttgart.de
131.159.0.51	irc.informatik.tu-muenchen.de

Just choose your favourite irc server and put the name `irc' at the end
of one line.

This binary will also look into /usr/local/lib/irc/ircII.servers. There
you can specify one or more of your favourite irc servers and an entry
in /etc/hosts is no longer needed.

INSTALLATION:

To install this package do the following:

# tar -C /usr/local -xzvpf ircii-2.8.MiNT.tar.gz

To install the help files, type:

# tar -C /usr/local/lib/irc -xzvpf ircii-2.8help.tar.gz

You may compress the help files to save disk space:

# find /usr/local/lib/irc/help -type f | xargs gzip -9n

RECOMPILING:

If you want to recompile the whole thing, get the original source for
ircii-2.8, for example from
ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/networking/irc/clients/ircII/ircii-2.8.tar.gz

Unpack the source:

% tar xzvf ircii-2.8.tar.gz

% cd ircii-2.8

% patch -p1 < /usr/local/src/irc/ircii-2.8.diffs

Edit include/config.h if you want to change some default values.

% make

# make install

Do NOT run ./configure or ./easyinst!

Have fun.

Please send (port related) bug reports, diffs and/or suggestions to me.

Bye,
Knarf (knarf@nasim.cube.net)