Building Silc Client 1.0.2: glib-config

I recently went to upgrade both my Silc server and clients to the newest 
versions. As I always do I got them off the silc ftp site and began to 
build them. The server built fine, and it's now up again. However the 
client had a bit of a trouble. It seems it wants a configuration script 
that is just not available with recent glibs: glib-config. There's no 
glib-config in the newest glib's from ftp.gtk.org.

Sample configure output ->

*** The glib-config script installed by GLIB could not be found
*** If GLIB was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in
*** your path, or set the GLIB_CONFIG environment variable to the
*** full path to glib-config.
checking for glib-config... (cached) no
checking for GLIB - version >= 2.0.0... no
*** The glib-config script installed by GLIB could not be found
*** If GLIB was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in
*** your path, or set the GLIB_CONFIG environment variable to the
*** full path to glib-config.
*** trying without -lgmodule
checking for glib-config... (cached) no
checking for GLIB - version >= 2.0.0... no
*** The glib-config script installed by GLIB could not be found
*** If GLIB was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in
*** your path, or set the GLIB_CONFIG environment variable to the
*** full path to glib-config.

*** If you don't have GLIB, you can get it from ftp://ftp.gtk.org
*** If you can't install GLIB anywhere or if you don't want to,
*** you can just unpack it to Irssi's source directory and
*** Irssi will automatically compile and use it.

I even tried doing it manually, by setting the CFLAGS and such, and trying 
to use the --disable-glibtest from the inner configure script in the 
silc-client source package. No good.

It does however use pkg-config:


root@atr2 /tmp/silc-client-1.0.2 # pkg-config glib-2.0 --cflags
-I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include

root@atr2 /tmp/silc-client-1.0.2 # pkg-config glib-2.0 --libs

-lglib-2.0

All the needed libraries and headers are actually present, in normal 
locations (/usr/include, /usr/lib), and I've built a good deal of other 
software using my recent glib.

I went back and double-checked, downloaded again the source just now. I 
noted this time in the NEWS file:

* Removed glib-config-2.0 in favour of pkgconfig [Sebastian]

And from the change log:

2001-06-27  Sebastian Wilhelmi  <[email protected]>

         * Makefile.am, configure.in: Removed glib-config-2.0, as we have
         pkg-config now.


So it seems that up to date glibs don't do "glib-config" anymore. I do 
remember the script from back in the old, old version, maybe around 1.*, 
but the new ones certainly don't include this time. I could make a 
cheater-script wrapper for configure to call, but I don't really know what 
format the data needs to be in that the script returns. Usually configure 
(autoconf) is super picky about the way output looks.

The server builds find. I guess I have to stand with my old client until 
something works out.


If it's important, this is a Linux x86 system, no distro. GCC 3.4.3, glibc 
2.3.3, glib 2.6.3 (soon to go to 2.6.4, since I just saw there's a new one 
out ;) ). Since I compile all my own stuff, I tend to have the latest 
stabile releases of all libraries and utilities, so this may not be an 
issue with mainstream linux distro's right now, but I imagine sooner or 
later it will...

Unless I'm missing something...but it does look like glib-config scripts 
have been obsoleted...


- jayjwa

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