Compiling HAL 0.5.8 and BLKGETSIZE problems

[Gabriel C]

Eugéne Suter schrieb:
> Hi there,
>
> I'm trying to compile HAL 0.5.8.1 for VectorLinux 5.8 Standard (a Slackware
> 11 derivative).
> I have got all the dependencies out of the way I think, DBUS, UDEV and
> PolicyKit are there.
>
> Idownloaded the tarball from HAL's freedesktop page, unpacked it, and ran
> the ./configure with these flags:
>
> $ ./configure --prefix=/usr \
> --sysconfdir=/etc \
> --libexecdir=/usr/lib/hal \
> --localstatedir=/var \
> --without-macbookpro
>
> It goes fine for a while, but then stops with this error:
>
> checking for BLKGETSIZE64... no
> configure: error: BLKGETSIZE64 is not defined
>
> I have searched the web fr similar problems, and some users seem to have
> solved this problem by using linux-libc-headers.
> I have kernel 2.6.18.4 installed, and the only linux-libc-headers source I
> can find goes up to version 2.6.12 if I'm not mistaken, so I guess I can't
> use linux-libc-headers and will have to use the kernel ones.
>   

Well ( package || install ) the sanitized kernel headers?
Is done by :

make INSTALL_HDR_PATH=/usr headers_install

as example.

Be sure you install unifdef package first

> Others also solved the problem by expanding their tmpfs usage limit.
> I have no idea how it is done, but running df at the command-promt gives
> this output:
>
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda3              5116536   3111324   2005212  61% /
> tmpfs                   131072         4    131068   1% /tmp
> tmpfs                   127340         0    127340   0% /dev/shm
>
>
> Is there any patch for HAL, or any other workaround for this problem?
>
> Any help is much appreciated :)
>
> Eugéne
>   

Regards,

Gabriel


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