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Re: irc


On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, beau wrote:

> On Apr 11, 2005 11:15 AM, Reid Thompson <Reid.Thompson@XXXX.XX> wrote:

<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>.  Thanks.

> > $ tar xvfj irssi-0.8.9.tar.bz2
> > $ cd irssi-0.8.9
> > $ ./configure --with-perl=no
> > $ make
>
> I had to run setup to get gcc, glib and make before the above would
> give me anything.

Naturally.

> Make seemed to exit happily enough, but I'm pretty
> green about such things.  When I tried irssi at the command line I got
> "command not found."

FWICS, the irssi binary should be in src/fe-text (but maybe I'm mistaken
-- I haven't actually built the code).  So "./src/fe-text/irssi" should
work (or read on)...

> All help gratefully appreciated; I really don't want to keep using
> trillian.

Typing "make install" after "make" should put the "irssi.exe" binary in
/usr/local/bin (which is in the PATH by default), so that "irssi" will
work.
HTH,
	Igor
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