On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 10:03:23PM -0500, Jeff Spies wrote:
> I'm trying to install gale, a instant messaging system, under 1.5 with the 
> eventual goal of packaging it.  I have a few basic questions though.  First 
> off, is anyone currently working on gale, or has anyone already tried? 
> Second does anyone know the status of:
> 
> 1) RSAREF
> 2) The Boehm conservative garbage collector
> 3) Ian Jackson's asynchronous DNS library (ADNS)
> 4) Bruno Haible's libiconv
> 
> As all four of these are prerquisites for gale to run.

As others have mentioned, all of these except adns were available as a
package at the time of your email.  I have created a package for adns
now, although you might get some strange results when running on an
i386 box with sources older than a few days because of a bug in div(3)
and ldiv(3) that I discovered and Frank van der Linden fixed.

	Install the following packages:

		devel/gmake
		security/rsaref
		devel/boehm-gc
		net/adns
		converters/libiconv

	Extract gale.

	Configure with:
		env CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/pkg/include -I/usr/pkg/include/rsaref" \
		    LDFLAGS="-R/usr/pkg/lib -L/usr/pkg/lib" ./configure

	Compile & install (into /usr/local) with:
		gmake
		gmake install

	Create a user for `gale' to run as.

	Run `gale-install' to post-install, and follow the instructions.

I'll work on a package (unless one of our gun package creators feels
like doing it :)


Luke.


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