With slibtool the client-gtk build fails with undefined references for -lx11. This happens because the build includes -no-undefined and then fails to test for the libX11 pkgconfig file.
GNU libtool silently ignores -no-undefined and hides this issue while slibtool does not do this.
Gentoo Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/779121
This probably also happens with the qt3 and qt4 builds, but I don't know if anyone cares about those anymore and I can't test trivially.
Note this is applied against scim-bridge-0.14.16.
I updated the patch with a small fix.
Thank you for this report. scim no longer uses sourceforge.net
https://github.com/scim-im is where it's at nowadays