Re: [Gaim-devel] Gaim + SILC and binary packages

[Mark D. <ma...@ki...>]

On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 12:26:38 +0200 (CEST), Pekka Riikonen wrote
> Hi,
> 
> Could I ask now before the new release is made about the situation 
> of the SILC prpl binary support for the Gaim binary packages, the 
> RPM and other binary distributions, including Windows.  Do you,
>  packagers, have plans to include, or provide the prpl as additional 
> binary plugin, and would you like to contribute your time to provide 
> it at the same time you provide the Gaim as binary package?  For 
> Windows, the pre-compiled DLLs and also static libraries are 
> available (from silcnet.org) so including it for the Windows distro 
> isn't too hard.  For the RPM and other binary packages I think we 
> talked about doing it as a separate plugin package.  That plugin 
> could then be available either from the silcnet.org or from gaim 
> site or both.  The patch for the RPM .spec was submitted to this 
> list to make the plugin compilation easy.
> 
> I'd like to hear what the packagers think how it should be handled, and
> let me know if you need any kind of assistance on getting the SILC support
> to work.
> 
>  	Pekka

Personally I'd like to provide it as a separate RPM (gaim-silc or something).
 The patch to the spec file for that is still in my inbox, and I will look at
it before we release (unless someone else gets to it first).

To compile SILC, do you HAVE to use --with-silc-includes=DIR and
--with-silc-libs=DIR?  If you leave those off will the directories be
auto-detected?  I have a libsilc and libsilc-devel RPM installed and that
alone is not enough for the SILC PRPL to compile.  And that makes me sad.
-Mark


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