Eli Schwartz
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In commit9a9a262ea1we moved from pkg-config to find_package() to work around a deficiency in the pkgsrc package manager, which does not ship pkg-config files as intended by CPython. In the process, Gentoo and other platforms that, unlike pkgsrc, publicly support multiple versions of python installed in parallel, had python version selection broken. Consequently, weechat linked to the wrong python, which happened to be installed in build chroots but was not the versioned python package that the weechat package listed as a dependency. Attempting to install weechat then broke on some systems (which installed one version of python as a dependency but actually linked to a totally different one). This happens due to a design bug in upstream CMake. It is never conceptually reasonable to use ``` find_package(Python COMPONENTS ...) ``` and omit the "Interpreter" component; if you do, CMake will ignore its own documentation on how to control the build to use a specific python, and choose one randomly (== "latest version available"). If, and only if, the Interpreter component is checked, the development headers / libraries for python will be guaranteed consistent with the documented lookup variables from FindPython.cmake's documentation. Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/968814 Fixes:9a9a262ea1Fixes: https://github.com/weechat/weechat/pull/2251 Signed-off-by: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@gentoo.org>
WeeChat
WeeChat (Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat) is a free chat client, fast and light, designed for many operating systems.
It is highly customizable and extensible with scripts.
Homepage: https://weechat.org/
Features
- Modular chat client: WeeChat has a lightweight core and optional plugins. All plugins (including IRC) are independent and can be unloaded.
- Multi-platform: WeeChat runs on GNU/Linux, *BSD, GNU/Hurd, Haiku, macOS and Windows (Bash/Ubuntu and Cygwin).
- Multi-protocols: WeeChat is designed to support multiple protocols by plugins, like IRC.
- Standards-compliant: the IRC plugin is compliant with RFCs 1459, 2810, 2811, 2812, 2813 and 7194.
- Small, fast, and very light: the core is and should stay as light and fast as possible.
- Customizable and extensible: there are a lot of options to customize WeeChat, and it is extensible with C plugins and scripts (Perl, Python, Ruby, Lua, Tcl, Scheme, JavaScript and PHP).
- Fully documented: there is comprehensive documentation, which is translated into several languages.
- Developed from scratch: WeeChat was built from scratch and is not based on any other client.
- Free software: WeeChat is released under GPLv3.
On WeeChat's website you can find more screenshots.
Installation
WeeChat can be installed using your favorite package manager (recommended) or by compiling it yourself.
For detailed instructions, please check the WeeChat user's guide.
Semantic versioning
WeeChat is following a "practical" semantic versioning, see file CONTRIBUTING.md.
Copyright
Copyright © 2003-2026 Sébastien Helleu
This file is part of WeeChat, the extensible chat client.
WeeChat is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
WeeChat is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with WeeChat. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.