Hello stranger,

  welcome between us, strange people of IIRC Alpha-Testers. Please
keep on the mind that IIRC is now in its very early state of development
and it is probably full of some strange memory leaks, buffer overflows,
and other bugs - some known and some not.

  If you still want to test or develop it, you are very welcome.
Main nest of IIRCeople is in #cyberspace at IRCnet (see url
http://pasky.ji.cz/~pasky/irc/IRCnet.html for the map of currently
linked servers). The core developers (the ones with write access to 
CVS) have they own channel #IIRC there, if you join the development
activelly and your patches are nice, innovative, great, exciting 
and so on, you will hopefully join us ;-).

  If you want to test IIRC actively, you should always use the version
from actual CVS - anonymous r/o access can be achieved this way:

luser@box:~$ export CVSROOT=":pserver:anonymous@cvs.iirc.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/iirc" <enter>
luser@box:~$ cvs login <enter>
Password: <enter>
luser@box:~$ cvs checkout iirc <enter>
...
luser@box:~$

now cd to new directory iirc/, (check Makefile,) type ./configure, make
and then ./iirc, and you are in! :-) now everytime you will want to update
your CVS tree to have the newest fresh still pretty hot version, just cd
to the iirc/ directory, and type cvs update. You will get logged in and so
automatically, and changes will be applied. Then, you should clean your
tree by make distclean, and then compile as usual. 

If you are going to build this software on non-linux system, you NEED
(probably, I'm just guessing, you may try it w/o it ;) to edit root Makefile
and uncomment specified lines. You also have to use GNU make (usually 
available as 'gmake').

  We warn you, compilation requires GLib to proceed successfully (blame fis).
He uses hash tables and some other great things provided by it to do the job. 

  Good luck and happy hacking!
  				--pasky and fis

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