[PATCH] hal 0.5.9 rc1

[Dan Nicholson]

On 3/5/07, David Zeuthen <david at fubar.dk> wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 08:30 -0800, arandamandi wrote:
> > I'm on slackware current
> > and glibc are 2.3.6
> > i need glibc 2.4?
>
> 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?

You can certainly backport the inotify headers for glibc-2.3.6 and
your kernel headers. In Linuxfromscratch, we used these two patches.
The first is for the old linux-libc-headers package, and the second we
just drop into /usr/include/sys/inotify.h. I've never noticed any
problems with this approach, but YMMV.

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/downloads/linux-libc-headers/linux-libc-headers-2.6.12.0-inotify-3.patch
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/downloads/glibc/glibc-2.3.6-inotify-1.patch

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

--
Dan