Subject: Re: bus Error (core dump) when runing BitchX
To: Sten Spans <sten@blinkenlights.nl>
From: Luc Martineau <lpmartineau@yahoo.com>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 10/28/2004 12:45:38
should I use IRSSI or IRSSI-ICB package?

Thank you again for all the help it is GREATLY
apreciated.

Luc

 --- Sten Spans <sten@blinkenlights.nl> wrote: 
> On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, john heasley wrote:
> 
> > Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 06:45:41PM -0400, Luc
> Martineau:
> >>
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> in order to get the Core dump this is what
> happens...
> >> cd /usr/pkg/bin/
> >> ./BitchX-1.0c19
> >>
> >> it opens BitchX and connects to irc.prison.net (I
> >> tried multiple servers)
> >> it logs onto the server, works GREAT,
> >> I can do /whois mynick and it coms up fine
> >> I can do lists ETC it all works
> >>
> >> when I join a channel is where I get the
> problem...
> >> *** luma_
> >>
>
[~luma@CPE00503ee3ffe1-CM0011aea1c0c2.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com]
> >> has
> >>           joined #luma
> >>
> >
> > this package is a LP64 disaster.
> > This replacement for patch-al hacks that
> particular problem (though i
> > do not believe it is complete).  Last I checked,
> bitchx was no longer
> > maintained; better off using something else and
> marking this not for
> > sparc64 (or amd64?).
> 
> Quite true, bitchx makes al kind of faulty
> assumptions
> about pointer sizes and such. It's not possible to
> make
> it run well on anything but i386 without a major
> rewrite.
> 
> The solution is simple, select a different client
> ( irssi has a nice bitchx theme :).
> 
> -- 
> Sten Spans
> 
> "There is a crack in everything, that's how the
> light gets in."
> Leonard Cohen - Anthem
>