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.
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
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?
oops, forgot to reopen when I commented.
(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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