BitchX on Fedora Core 1

[Mark]

I installed BitchX off of www.rpmfind.net and didnt have a problem.

Christofer C. Bell wrote:

>I've done some digging around and I'm aware that there is a problem with 
>compiling BitchX 1.0c19 (ircii-pana-1.0c19.tar.gz) on a stock Fedora Core 
>1 installation.  The closest I've come to a solution was this message 
>posted to another list:
>
>=== QUOTE ===
>
>On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 10:53:28AM +0200, Erez Kirson wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi all
>>
>>Has anyone installed BitchX ( ircii-pana-1.0c19.tar.gz ) on Fedora core 1 ?
>>the "/configure" part was clean but it breaks on gmake
>>
>>For some reason im getting
>>
>>
>>status.c:1245:14: pasting "status_user18" and "(" does not give a valid preprocessing token
>>status.c:1246:14: pasting "status_user19" and "(" does not give a valid preprocessing token
>>gmake[1]: *** [status.o] Error 1
>>gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/BitchX/source'
>>gmake: *** [BitchX] Error 2
>>    
>>
>
>Sounds like gcc-3.2.x doesn't like BithcX's source. This should be
>trivial to fix manually, though. Look for something like
>
>#define STUSER18 "stuser18"
>#define PAREN "("
>printf(STUSER18 PAREN);
>
>and change it to
>printf("%s%s\n", STUSER18, PAREN);
>
>Cheers,
>Muli
>
>=== END QUOTE ===
>
>I've poked around in the source and I'm unable to make these types of 
>changes (I'm not a developer, just a "technical user").  Is anyone aware 
>of a patch that will get this software building on FC1 or have a binary 
>rpm that can be installed that works?  Thanks!
>
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