On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 07:18:42AM -0700, Ryan Moe wrote:

Thanks for this updated patch! I pushed as
36378bd57ec31ba2bbedbdbdbd77b5b0f82f3b8a with the following changes:

I changed all mention of SSL to TLS, which is (optimistically) more
accurate nowadays since all the SSL protocols have been broken and
deprecated.

> This allows quasselclient to connect to SSL-enabled quasselcore
> instances.

I moved this comment into the patch.

> * gnu/packages/patches/quassel-fix-ssl-check.patch: New file.
> * gnu/local.mk (dist_patch_DATA): Add it.
> * gnu/packages/irc.scm (quassel)[arguments]: Use it.

s/arguments/source

> diff --git a/gnu/packages/patches/quassel-fix-ssl-check.patch b/gnu/packages/patches/quassel-fix-ssl-check.patch
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000..14c57883f
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/gnu/packages/patches/quassel-fix-ssl-check.patch
> @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
> +The check in qglobal.h requires -fPIC (not -fPIE as it
> +is now). When this check fails SSL is disabled.
> +
> +This patch comes from upstream master [0] and can be removed
> +when the next version is packaged.
> +
> +[0] https://github.com/quassel/quassel/commit/4768c9e99

I used the full commit hash here.

Plus various stylistic and cosmetic changes.