[PATCH] hal 0.5.9 rc1

[Dan Nicholson]

On 3/5/07, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers at vrfy.org> wrote:
> On 3/5/07, Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 3/5/07, David Zeuthen <david at fubar.dk> wrote:
> > >
> > > Yes, you currently need glibc 2.4 for this to work - glibc 2.4 was
> > > released about a year ago so I dunno how 'current' Slackware current is.
> > > I'd complain to your distro; no point in living in the past :-)
> > >
> > > FWIW, I'll take patches for earlier versions / workarounds; IIRC the
> > > Nokia people also wanted that. Rob?
<snip>
> >
> > You'd have to talk to Slackware about that. The other option is for
> > HAL to ship some local inotify headers. Here's the equivalent in udev.
> >
> > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/hotplug/udev.git;a=blob;f=udev_sysdeps.h;hb=HEAD
>
> Yeah, I did that for udev, because there was not even a devel-release
> of glibc at the time I used inotify. I really see no point doing that
> today for HAL.

In that case, it'd be nice if HAL's configure barfed on a missing
<sys/inotify.h> so that it was clear right away what went wrong. I
agree that HAL should just expect this, though.

Are you thinking about tearing that out in udev? Just curious.

--
Dan