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[gaim-migrate @ 16759] This initializes threads for glib and dbus, because under some circumstances multithreaded libraries are causing dbus badness (namely, gnome-vfs). This fix doesn't really belong in Gaim, but in the interest of expedience (we don't want to wait for upstream libraries to get their initializations all worked around to make things safe) the fix goes here. Note that all Gaim frontends will have to initialize glib threads if other threaded libraries which interact with glib or dbus or what-have-you come into play. committer: Tailor Script <[e-mail]>

SILC Gaim Plugin
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This is Gaim protocol plugin of the protocol called Secure Internet Live 
Conferencing (SILC).  The implementation will use the SILC Toolkit, 
freely available from the http://silcnet.org/ site, for the actual SILC 
protocol implementation.

To include the SILC into Gaim, one needs to first compile and install 
the SILC Toolkit.  It is done as follows:

	./configure --enable-shared
	make
	make install

This will compile shared libraries of the SILC Toolkit.  If the --prefix 
is not given to ./configure, the binaries are installed into the 
/usr/local/silc directory.

Once the Toolkit is installed one needs to tell for the Gaim ./configure
script where the SILC Toolkit is located.  It is done as simply as:

	./configure

if pkg-config is installed in your system.  If it is isn't it's done as:

	./configure --with-silc-libs=/path/to/silc/lib
		    --with-silc-includes=/path/to/silc/include

If the Toolkit cannot be located the SILC will not be compiled into the 
Gaim.