External addons: how to get HAL user, and install dirs (fdi and binary)

[David Zeuthen]

Hi,

On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 11:00 +0200, Arnaud Quette wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I wanted to make a patch against hal.pc, but I first prefer to get
> some advices here.
> 
> I need to get the HAL user name and addon/fdi installation path for
> integration purpose (ie, the upcoming addons generated by NUT, see my
> following mail...).
> 
> I first looked at hal.pc (ie "pkg-config --variable=... hal")
> but I'm not completly sure about the paths for the fdi file (should
> point "20thirdparty" for external addons) and the addons binary path.
> 
> Any helpers existing / planned, or comments?

We could add this as .pc as variables. However, if an external package
such as NUT provides hal addons (which is a good idea I think) maybe it
should just run as the user for nut or alternatively root if you need
e.g. access to the hardware. That all depends on how it's going to work.

    David