Re: debian packages for silc-client 1.0.4.1 (for etch)

: i've bumped along the old packaging from silc-client to make .debs for
: version 1.0.4.1.
: 
Thanks for the contributions.  Keep them coming.  People are asking from 
me about 1.1 .deb's already.

: Given the monolithic nature of the silc-client source tarball (it
: appears to include the silc toolkit and large chunks of irssi), i'm
: not sure what the best way to strip out this code duplication is.
: Suggestions are welcome.
: 
: I'd also like to rebuild the silc-server packages so that they depend
: on a modern silc-toolkit library, instead of including the library
: sources directly.  Again, given the monolithic nature of the source
: tarball, i'm not sure how to do this cleanly.
: 
If the SILC Toolkit is installed in the system (ie. the pkg-config files 
are in the path) the compilation process of silc-client and silc-server 
will automatically use the SILC Toolkit from the system (and thus create 
dependency to the Toolkit in the system).  If it isn't in the system it 
will compile the included Toolkit.  Another way is to give the 
--with-silc-includes and --with-silc-libs options directly instead of 
using the pkg-config.

The plan for silc-client 1.1 is that it will have some kind of 
--enable-silc-plugin or --with-silc-plugin option that can be used to 
explicitly compile the SILC Plugin.  Otherwise it will compile the 
standalone client.  This way you can compile both versions from one 
tar-ball.  This should be working in the upcoming beta3.

	Pekka
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 Pekka Riikonen                                 priikone at silcnet.org
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