Compile failure : hald-test

[Richard Hughes]

On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 15:52 +0100, Danny Kukawka wrote:
> On Friday 13 January 2006 20:08, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > Using automake 1.9.6, HAL no longer compiles for FC rawhide:
> 
> [...]
> 
> I also use this automake version, but I never get this error for 'make 
> distcheck' and also not within our (currently paranoid) build system. So this 
> is maybe a other problem with FC and not in general (was there something 
> changed in FC?).

Not sure, seems to work fine now, maybe just an automake oddity.

> > The offending commented out entry is:
> >
> > hald_test_SOURCES =
> > \
> 
> Was this '\' on a new line or only a mail-linebreak?

mail breakage.

> > Should we have an option for this test program in configure.in? Is
> > hald-test ever used by anyone -- I've certainly never used it.
> 
> I also never used it, but there is IMO a reason for this. Maybe David could 
> say more.

David, Do you want the building of hald-test to be added as a configure
argument?

Richard.