Building mcabber from Mercurial
From Mcabber Wiki
A short explanation on how to use Mercurial to keep up-to-date with the latest development version of mcabber. More info on Mercurial can be found on http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/.
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Download
First, clone the Mercurial reporitory:
% hg clone http://mcabber.com/hg/ mcabber-hg
Prepare
Go into the mcabber directory, and build the configure script (you will need the autotools software installed):
% cd mcabber-hg/mcabber % ./autogen.sh
Note: If you have the following error: "warning: macro `XXX' not found in library" then you may need to copy the corresponding m4 files from macros/missing/ to macros/ or install the appropriate system packages. For example, if you get this error:
aclocal:configure.ac:139: warning: macro `AM_PATH_LIBGCRYPT' not found in library
You might need to install the libgcrypt-devel package (or your system's equivalent).
Now you can use the configure script, as usual. You can use --enable-hgcset to add the Mercurial changeset to mcabber's version string.
% ./configure --enable-hgcset
If you want to install in your own home-directory instead of system-wide, append --prefix=$HOME:
% ./configure --enable-hgcset --prefix=$HOME
Compile
To compile the source code, run:
% make
And to install it (you will probably need to be root to do this if you are doing a system-wide installation):
% make install
Update
If you want to update mcabber source code later, just pull from the repository, update and compile again:
% hg pull -u % make % make install