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Installing irssi via MacPorts on OS X Lion 10.7.1

Major Hayden — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:24:44 +0000

I've floated back and forth between graphical IRC clients and terminal-based clients for a long time. However, I was sad to see that irssi wouldn't build via MacPorts on OS X Lion. During the build, I saw quite a few errors from the compiler:

-E, -S, -save-temps and -M options are not allowed with multiple -arch flags

Sure enough, when I looked at the lines in the output, both x86_64 and i386 were passed to the compiler:

... -pipe -O2 -arch x86_64 -arch i386 -fno-common ...

I opened a ticket in trac and began looking for a workaround. Another trac ticket (from four years ago) on the MacPorts site gave some pointers on how to work around the bug for a previous version.

I changed up the instructions a bit since we're not dealing with the ppc architecture any longer:

sudo port -v clean irssi +perl
sudo port -v configure irssi +perl
cd /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_irc_irssi/irssi/work/
sudo find . -type f -exec sed -i "" -e "s/-arch i386//g" {} \;
cd
sudo port -v install irssi +perl

The build worked!

$ irssi -v
irssi 0.8.15 (20100403 1617)

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Switching between audible and visual bells in screen

Major Hayden — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:37:09 +0000

About a year ago, I was introduced to the joys of using irssi and screen to access irc servers. Before that time, I'd usually used graphical clients like Colloquy, and I always enjoyed getting Growl notifications when someone mentioned a word or string that I set up as a trigger.

Once I started using irssi in screen, I found that the visual bell in screen didn't get my attention quickly. Luckily, someone in the #slicehost channel let me know about screen's audible bell. You can flip between the visual and audible bell with CTRL-A and then CTRL-G. If you keep repeating that key combination, you'll switch back and forth between the two (with a status update at the bottom left).

You can also set up your visual bell configuration in your .screenrc via some configuration parameters:

vbell [on|off]
vbell_msg [message]
vbellwait sec

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Changing the time zone in irssi

Major Hayden — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:34:42 +0000

I usually set the time zone on my servers to UTC, but that makes it a bit confusing for me when I use irssi. If you have perl support built into irssi, you can run these commands to alter your time zone within irssi only:

/load perl
/script exec $ENV{'TZ'}='(nameofyourtimezone)';

For example, I'm in Central Time, so I'd use:

/script exec $ENV{'TZ'}='CST6CDT';

To update the time in your status bar, simply /whois yourself and you should see the updated time zone. If you want more handy irssi tips, look no further than irssi's documentation.

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