[PATCH] detect path to dmidecode in configure (fd.o bug #9318)

[David Zeuthen]

On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 20:51 +0100, Danny Kukawka wrote:
> On Thursday 15 February 2007 20:21, David Zeuthen wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 19:43 +0100, Danny Kukawka wrote:
> > > this patch adds detection of the location of dmidecode to configure. If
> > > dmidecode could not get found we fall back to the same path as already
> > > hardcoded in probe-smbios.c. This would fix fd.o bug #9318
> >
> > I guess that's fine although I'm not too fond of requiring the tool to
> > be available during build (e.g. it forces a BuildRequires in the RPM
> > spec file). But I suppose it's useful for some people. Please commit.
> > Thanks.
> 
> The alternative is the attached patch which check the path to dmidecode on 
> runtime. This should be no really problem with performance since the addon 
> get started only one time - on hald startup.
> 
> I can live also with this patch.

Yea, this is probably better I think (with the change that Jon mentioned
and s/uint/unsigned int/). Thanks.

     David