Bug 13090

Summary: hal-info always requires hal 0.5.10 to be installed
Product: hal Reporter: dufflebunk
Component: hal-infoAssignee: David Zeuthen (not reading bugmail) <zeuthen>
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG QA Contact:
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Priority: medium    
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Description dufflebunk 2007-11-04 22:08:40 UTC 
Trying to compile hal-info results in the following after running ./configure:
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
configure: error: hal 0.5.10 or later is required for this version of hal-info


The help message suggests that hal must only already be installed if you --enable-killswitch-ipw-wlan. Unfortunately the configure.in always checks and fails. Since hal is supposed to depend on hal-info, it makes both impossible to install.
Comment 1 Danny Kukawka 2007-11-06 02:13:18 UTC 
1) hal don't depend on hal-info
2) the check is correct, since the current hal-info package contains new FDI-directives (*_outof) which only work with hal >= 0.5.10
Comment 2 dufflebunk 2007-11-08 21:02:37 UTC 
Quoting from http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/hal:
hal-info and hal should not be packaged together. When packaging hal, it should depend on hal-info, of any version. hal-info should also be checked out in the same level directory as hal if you intend to use ./run-hald.sh

You're saying that there is no compile time dependency for Hal on hal-info?
Or are you saying that the paragraph is entirely wrong and hal shouldn't depend at all on hal-info?
Comment 3 dufflebunk 2007-12-05 23:27:50 UTC 
oops, forgot to reopen when I commented.
Comment 4 Danny Kukawka 2007-12-24 15:19:15 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> You're saying that there is no compile time dependency for Hal on hal-info?

Yes, I say there is no compile, but maybe (as in this case) a runtime dependency. Because of this I would say: hal-info depends on hal and not otherwise.

Btw. we changed this already to be a warning instead of an error.

Set bug back to old state.

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