This was written for the August 15, 2007 build of WeeChat checked out from CVS.
Use macports to install the necessary tools to build. You’ll have to figure those out yourself. There are some optional things you can install from macports as well, such as aspell and/or lua. You can alternatively compile everything by hand and install them to /usr/local if you prefer. Macports will install everything to /opt/local by default.
Apple’s version of ruby is broke for PowerPC (unconfirmed for Intel OSX). They put the headers for ruby in /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/universal-darwin8.0. However, when you use rbconfig to see the architecture, it will say powerpc. There are no headers in the powerpc-darwin8.0 directory, so simply copy all the headers from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/universal-darwin8.0 to /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/powerpc-darwin8.0.
Start off by editing autogen.sh. Search and replace libtoolize with glibtoolize.
Next, edit doc/Makefile.am. On the SUBDIRS line, remove sv from the end.
After that, open up configure.in. Look for the AC_OUTPUT section. Remove the line that has doc/sv/Makefile on it.
Now run autogen.sh. If all goes well, you should see OK next to everything like this:
If everything looks good, continue on.
Edit the configure file. Search for PYTHON_LFLAGS. You should come to a section that has checks for python around line 29851 (as of the CVS checkout of the date mention at the top). Skip to the last one and add these lines:
echo “${ECHO_T}found” >&6; } elif test -r “/usr/lib/libpython2.3.dylib”; then PYTHON_LFLAGS=”-L/usr/lib/ $PYTHON_LFLAGS”
{ echo “$as_me:$LINENO: result: found” >&5
Next, we need to set CFLAGS and LDFLAGS so everything can find the headers and libs. Use these two below:
Run ./configure –prefix=/usr/local (or wherever you want to install it). If everything turned out okay, you should see something similar to this:
Now type make to get everything compiled. Everything should compile without any errors. Once it’s finished, type sudo make install.
There’s one more thing left to do before you can run WeeChat. Head over to /usr/local/lib/weechat/plugins. You’ll notice there’s some symbolic links. When you go to start WeeChat, it will try to load the plugins multiple times because of this.
The solution is to remove the symbolic links with this command: sudo rm {aspell.0.so,aspell.so,charset.0.so,charset.so,lua.0.so,lua.so,perl.0.so,perl.so,python.0.so,python.so,ruby.0.so,ruby.so}
Now run weechat-curses and enjoy.
