[PATCH] hal 0.5.9 rc1

[Kay Sievers]

On 3/5/07, Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/5/07, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers at vrfy.org> wrote:
> > On 3/5/07, Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 3/5/07, David Zeuthen <david at fubar.dk> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > 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?
> <snip>
> > >
> > > 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
> >
> > Yeah, I did that for udev, because there was not even a devel-release
> > of glibc at the time I used inotify. I really see no point doing that
> > today for HAL.
>
> In that case, it'd be nice if HAL's configure barfed on a missing
> <sys/inotify.h> so that it was clear right away what went wrong. I
> agree that HAL should just expect this, though.
>
> Are you thinking about tearing that out in udev? Just curious.

Some day, it will be removed along with most of the other stuff in
that file, yes.

Kay