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The 1.1.11 tarball has no README.MACOSX in the top-level directory, this leads to:

Making install in doc
make install-data-hook
mkdir -p /home/estan/silc-client/share/doc/silc-client
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ../doc/FAQ /home/estan/silc-client/share/doc/silc-client/
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ../COPYING /home/estan/silc-client/share/doc/silc-client/
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ../ChangeLog /home/estan/silc-client/share/doc/silc-client/
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ../CREDITS /home/estan/silc-client/share/doc/silc-client/
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ../README /home/estan/silc-client/share/doc/silc-client/
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ../README.MACOSX /home/estan/silc-client/share/doc/silc-client/
install: ../README.MACOSX: No such file or directory

Since it's specified in doc/Makefile.am.

Not sure if README.MACOSX should be added to the tarball, or the install command removed.

Add the SILC Client to the Fedora repository.

I tried compiling the latest version on openSuSE 12.2 with the following command line:

./configure --with-silc-plugin=/usr/lib64/irssi --enable-ipv6 --sbindir=/sbin -sysconfdir=/etc --mandir=/usr/share/man --bindir=/bin --localstatedir=/var --prefix=/usr

This completed with the following output:

Building text frontend ..... : yes, using termcap
Building irssi bot ......... : no
Building irssi proxy ....... : no
Building with IPv6 support . : yes
Building with module support : yes
Building with Perl support . : static (in irssi binary)
Perl library directory ..... : /usr/lib/perl5/5.16.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi

• NOTE: This was automatically set to the same directory you gave with
  --prefix. If you want the perl libraries to install to their 'correct'
  path, you'll need to give --with-perl-lib=site option to configure.
  Anyway, installing perl to this directory should work just as well.
  Install prefix ............. : /usr

If there was any problems, read the INSTALL file.

silc-client Configuration Summary:

Target host ...................: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
Compiler ......................: gcc
CFLAGS ........................: -D_GNU_SOURCE -g -Wall -finline-functions -Wno-pointer-sign -O2 -D_REENTRANT
LDFLAGS .......................: -L$(silc_top_srcdir)/lib
LIBS ..........................: -lpthread

Installation prefix ...........: /usr
bin directory .................: /bin
sbin directory ................: /sbin
etc directory .................: /etc
man directory .................: /usr/share/man
doc directory .................: /usr/share/doc/silc-client
include directory .............: /usr/include

Compile SILC Client ...........: yes
IPv6 support ..................: yes
Iconv support .................: yes
Assembler optimizations .......: yes
Multi-threads support .........: yes
Debugging enabled .............: no

Compile the sources with 'make' or 'gmake' command.

After running make, I get the following error:
/bin/sh ../../../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc -g -O2 -Wall -o libsilc_core.la -rpath /usr/lib64/irssi/modules clientutil.lo silc-c
hannels.lo silc-core.lo silc-nicklist.lo silc-queries.lo silc-servers.lo silc-expandos.lo silc-servers-reconnect.lo silc-lag.lo silc-chatnet
s.lo silc-cmdqueue.lo client_ops.lo ../../../../../lib/libsilc.la ../../../../../lib/libsilcclient.la
libtool: link: gcc -shared -fPIC -DPIC .libs/clientutil.o .libs/silc-channels.o .libs/silc-core.o .libs/silc-nicklist.o .libs/silc-queries
.o .libs/silc-servers.o .libs/silc-expandos.o .libs/silc-servers-reconnect.o .libs/silc-lag.o .libs/silc-chatnets.o .libs/silc-cmdqueue.o .l
ibs/client_ops.o -Wl,--whole-archive ../../../../../lib/.libs/libsilc.a ../../../../../lib/.libs/libsilcclient.a -Wl,--no-whole-archive -L
/tmp/silc-client-1.1.10/lib -lpthread -O2 -Wl,-soname -Wl,libsilc_core.so.0 -o .libs/libsilc_core.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.7/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: ../../../../../lib/.libs/libsilc.a(stringprep.o): relocation R_X8
6_64_32S against .rodata' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC ../../../../../lib/.libs/libsilc.a(stringprep.o): could not read symbols: Bad value collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status make[7]: *** [libsilc_core.la] Error 1 make[7]: Leaving directory/tmp/silc-client-1.1.10/apps/irssi/src/silc/core'
make[6]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[6]: Leaving directory /tmp/silc-client-1.1.10/apps/irssi/src/silc' make[5]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[5]: Leaving directory/tmp/silc-client-1.1.10/apps/irssi/src'
make[4]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory /tmp/silc-client-1.1.10/apps/irssi' make[3]: *** [all] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory/tmp/silc-client-1.1.10/apps/irssi'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory /tmp/silc-client-1.1.10/apps' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory/tmp/silc-client-1.1.10'
make: *** [all] Error 2

I can provide more logs if required.
Is there something missing from my irssi install?
If I run configure without the "--with-silc-plugin=/usr/lib64/irssi", it compiles successfully.
irssi is version 0.8.15 (which comes with openSuSE).

Thank you,

Chewie

If I am not mistaken, only certain precompiled binaries of pidgin come with the support for SILC, while many linux distros dropped the default support for it (since it requires the silc toolkit). Is it possible to refactor the silc protocol support into a separate plugin (so it can be compiled separately and made available on demand, under the assumption the toolkit is available)?

I don't quite understand the workflow here, in git world, master should reflect the changes as well, but the last commit there was from 2008. I could see 1.1x branch as default, but it's still confusing.

Any plan to merge back to master?

Meanwhile when is it possible to see seperate repo and releases of client, server and toolkit instead of a jumbo repo?

Is there a missing configure.in file at top level?

I know this defeats the purpose of encrypted communication. But it would help to bring some users in and those who are on silc could communicated encrypted with each other already.

Not sure if it's worth the effort, but our matrix bridge is annoying and people want something that's encrypted in the long run, but nothing that requires a webbrowser or a special client that's not CLI.

When trying to start silcd the following error shows up and the server exits:

[Fri Nov 11 19:14:26 2016] [Error] Could not allocate sha1 hash, probably not registered
silcd: silcrng.c:195: silc_rng_init: Assertion `rng != NULL' failed.
Aborted (core dumped)

Trace:

Process 30051 (silcd) of user 0 dumped core.
                                                  
                                                  Stack trace of thread 30051:
                                                  #0  0x0000007f8e2cca20 raise (libc.so.6)
                                                  #1  0x0000007f8e2cde14 abort (libc.so.6)
                                                  #2  0x0000007f8e2c6264 __assert_fail_base (libc.so.6)
                                                  #3  0x0000007f8e2c62fc __assert_fail (libc.so.6)
                                                  #4  0x0000007f8e475d20 silc_rng_init (libsilc-1.1.so.4)

Is silc no longer under development?