View the most recent changes for the xchat2 port at: xchat2.darwinports.com/diff
Scroll down toward the bottom of the page to get installation instructions for xchat2.
The raw portfile for xchat2 2.8.6 is located here:
http://xchat2.darwinports.com/dports/irc/xchat2/Portfile
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The xchat2 Portfile 54208 2009-07-23 02:55:53Z toby macports.org $

PortSystem 1.0

Name: xchat2
Version: 2.8.6
Revision: 2
Category: irc
Maintainers: afb openmaintainer
Description: GTK+2 IRC client
Homepage: http://www.xchat.org/
Platform: darwin

Long Description: XChat2 is a graphical IRC client based on GTK2 that has many features and can be scripted with Perl and/or Python.

Master Sites: http://xchat.org/files/source/2.8/
patch_sites http://xchat.org/files/source/2.8/patches/

distname xchat-${version}

Patch Files: xc286-smallfixes.diff patch-xtext.h

Checksums: xchat-${version}.tar.bz2 md5 1f2670865d43a23a9abc596dde999aca xchat-${version}.tar.bz2 sha1 7a7463e65cb26c680ed70dd96cec98bcc05435a4 xchat-${version}.tar.bz2 rmd160 bc199e3b58a9db3dfd9f2af6bac7fb6162c53d6e xc286-smallfixes.diff md5 eb68b6261bf6740cb5f223627eb8f384 xc286-smallfixes.diff sha1 b13eb421f6d72fca195b398c606d9413aec57fc4 xc286-smallfixes.diff rmd160 91c654320b7b1f9d6b13f7b226fb4cec26054319

use_bzip2 yes

depends_lib port:gtk2 path:bin/perl:perl5

patch.args -p1

configure.cppflags-append -no-cpp-precomp

configure.args --disable-python --disable-mmx --enable-ipv6

Variant: xft { configure.args-append --enable-xft }
Variant: ssl { configure.args-append --enable-openssl }

Variant: quartz conflicts xft { configure.args-append --disable-xlib }

livecheck.url http://www.xchat.org/files/source/2.8/?S=D
livecheck.regex xchat-(\[0-9.\]+)${extract.suffix}

If you haven't already installed Darwin Ports, you can find easy instructions for doing so at the main Darwin Ports page.
Once Darwin Ports has been installed, in a terminal window and while online, type the following and hit return:

%  cd /opt/local/bin/portslocation/dports/xchat2
%  sudo port install xchat2  
Password: 

You will then be prompted for your root password, which you should enter. You may have to wait for a few minutes while the software is retrieved from the network and installed for you. Y ou should see something that looks similar to:

--->  Fetching xchat2
--->  Verifying checksum for xchat2
--->  Extracting xchat2
--->  Configuring xchat2
--->  Building xchat2 with target all

--->  Staging xchat2 into destroot

--->  Installing xchat2

- Make sure that you do not close the terminal window while Darwin Ports is working. Once the software has been installed, you can find further information about using xchat2 with these commands:

%  man xchat2
%  apropos xchat2
%  which xchat2
%  locate xchat2

 Where to find more information: