Re: [PATCH] SOCKS, "socksify irssi" vs linking

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Christoph Fritz wrote:
> $ socksify irssi
> -!- Irssi: Unable to connect server irc.freenode.net port 6667 [No rout=
e to host]
>
> So I brought lenny's dante up to date and did some small changes to
> configure.in:
>
> 1. apt-get source irssi
> 2. apply patch
> 3. autoreconf -i
> 4. dpkg-buildpackage 2>&1 | tee /tmp/irssi_buil.log
> 5. dpkg -i irssi_0.8.12-8_i386.deb
>
> $ irssi
> -!- Welcome to the freenode Internet Relay Chat Network
>
> Why doesn't "socksify irssi" work but linking?
>
> [PATCH] Proxy enhancements (incl. native SOCKS5 support)=20
> at http://bugs.irssi.org/index.php?do=3Ddetails&task_id=3D691
> looks nice, why isn't this in trunk?
>
> ---
>  configure.in     |   43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
>  debian/changelog |    7 +++++++
>  debian/control   |    4 +++-
>  debian/rules     |    2 +-
>  4 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>  =20
Last time I played with this (several years ago) when I did a build with
socks support, I then found that I couldn't use it WITHOUT socks. This
wasn't worth it imo, so I reverted to a non-SOCKS build.

If this is no longer the case, I'd be glad to know.


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