updating Xchat and friends
by Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D.
The current version of Xchat is 2.6.0-6. Version 2.6.6 was released on
17July. A release of 2.6.7 for Linux is imminent.
The later versions support spell checking, which is a good thing. There
are configuration options that provide choices for spell checking
mechanisms. By default, configure will elect to link in libsexy if
found. libsexy will use enchant by default.
I built 2.6.6 using the src rpm from 2.6.0-6. I used a simplistic
approach:
* downloaded the 2.6.6 tar ball from xchat.org
* edited the 2.6.0 spec file
- changed the version numbers
- stripped out all of the patches [:-)]
Builds and runs fine.
There is also a newer version of enchant available:
enchant: 1.2.6
-Joseph
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joseph_sacco [at] comcast [dot] net
