Compiling Hal from CVS with 2.6.9 kernel

[Dean Jones]

On 11/12/2004, "David Zeuthen" <david at fubar.dk> wrote:

>
>This is simply not true; while GNOME has a few _optional_ dependencies
>on hal to do cool stuff, there is no hard dependency at all. And there
>will never be such hard dependencies.

Well, very true... However, it seems that Nautilus has issues loading
when Hal is not running.  I've searched all over to find some way to
break that dependency for the time being but to no avail...

>It would help if you stated what distribution you are using.

I'm sorry...  I've probably forgotten to give a lot of information. 
I'm sleep deprived and frustrated and fully blame these reasons on my
lack of paying attention.

I'm running Slackware 10 with the 2.6.8.1 kernel.

>FYI there are hal packages for a number distros out there including
>Fedora, Gentoo, Debian, Ubuntu. I would advise you to use them since
>they both handle the dependencies for you and install with a
>policy/configuration etc. that matches the rest of that distribution.

Dropline Gnome is usually great for this, however, they haven't done an
update lately and it doesn't look like they will for weeks.  This is a
new laptop and my only source of work at home (I'm at the office right
now), so I'm trying to get it working properly while I'm here at work.
 If it wasn't for the damn Intel 2200 WiFi, Hal would be working
wonderfully with the version Dropline Gnome supplies.

>The bug you are experiencing seems to indicate that we are missing a few
>header checks in the configure.in file. FWIW, my policy is that's what
>in CVS should always cleanly compile and work otherwise please shout.
>
>Cheers,
>David

Well, please excuse my frustration with all of this.  I don't want you
to think I'm attacking your product by any means and I don't want to
come off that way.  :)  I appreciate the help...

Being that Slackware is considering dropping Gnome all together (as of
recent news), maybe I should either A) Start trying new distributions or
B) Go to KDE...  which, KDE is my last option.  I run GTK apps heavily
and KDE just feels out-of-place.

Anyway, thanks again.

Dean

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