Re: [9fans] miau, an IRC bouncer

[Jens Staal <staal1978@gmail.com>]

That error is very common where "ls -di" is called in the configure
script (strange that it did not complain on your other system).

a nice fix is fgb's "config" script
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/fgb/rc/config

another common problem is "grep", where the easiest is to write

GREP=grep
at the top of the configure script.

2012/1/12 John Floren <john@jfloren.net>:
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 3:03 PM, John Floren <john@jfloren.net> wrote:
>> Back when I had my FreeBSD server, I used to run a tmux session and
>> irssi to keep myself connected to IRC at all times.  This let me
>> access it from any computer with an SSH client.
>>
>> Now I only run a Plan 9 server, but I missed the simplicity and
>> convenience of having just one nickname on IRC at all times.  I
>> finally got fed up and did a very crude port of Miau, an IRC bouncer.
>> A bouncer stays connected to your selected servers and channels while
>> serving the IRC protocol itself.  You then point an IRC client at your
>> bouncer, which instantly restores for you all the channels you had
>> open.
>>
>> This serves essentially the same purpose as ircfs, but with the
>> advantage that you don't need Plan 9 or Inferno to access it--any
>> computer with an IRC client can connect.  In fact, you can just use
>> Mibbit to connect as long as you have a web browser.
>>
>> Porting Miau was pretty easy; the configure script actually ran
>> properly and I only had to do a little bit of hacking to account for
>> things like the lack of crypt() (so yes, you have to type in a
>> plaintext password in the config file rather than giving it a hash).
>> There's a tar at /n/sources/contrib/john/miau9.tgz, or you can check
>> out the bitbucket repo from http://bitbucket.org/floren/miau9
>> (preferred).
>>
>> Known bugs: It's really easy to type "maui" instead of "miau".
>>
>>
>> John
>>
>
> Oddly, I can't get this to compile on my home Plan 9 system; there, it
> bails out like all other configure scripts I've ever tried to use:
>
> # ./configure
> ln: conf115166.dir destination exists
> usage: ls [-ACFHLRUacdflprstu1] [file ...]
> configure: error: working directory cannot be determined
> #
>
> I'll have to try and figure out the difference.
>
>
> John
>