0.5.9rc2

[Gabriel C]

David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 03:38 +0200, Gabriel C wrote:
>   
>> I've tested rc2 today and so far everything looks fine , no crahes or 
>> the like :)
>>     
>
> Great, thanks for testing.
>
>   
>> Aynway I've found some bugs.
>>
>> Something is broken with the build system ..
>>
>> While building with fakeroot ( with or without autoreconf ) hal does not 
>> get my CHOST anymore on a i686 box. Huch ?
>> ( adding --host , --build , --target  to configure  solves this )
>> This is fine on the same box with hal 0.5.8.1.
>>     
>
> Uh, I suck at build system stuff so I can't help here. Sorry. Patches
> welcome though :-)
>
>   

Aiee :) I have some time later on today , maybe I can find the problem.

>> hal-info check is missing from configure. I guess we want one  ?
>>     
>
> As Michael said, hal-info isn't required at build-time and strictly hal
> can work without it though this is of course not recommended :-)
>   

Ach ok , I was missing the 'can work without' part ;)

>   
>> --enable-umount-helper  Provide umount.hal helper
>>
>> ....
>>
>> You should tell here util-linux with an patch is needed to get this 
>> working.
>> (  without  hal won't  mount at all )
>>     
>
> Fixed
>
> http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=hal.git;a=commitdiff;h=2990946172751344782330d9a16d5b830c250b29
> http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=hal.git;a=commitdiff;h=0bf343fc00b0c30e7284729cf1d8ac68d3948397
>
>   
>> On autoreconf I see this :
>>
>> hald/freebsd/probing/Makefile.am:32: compiling `freebsd_dvd_rw_utils.c' 
>> with per-target flags requires `AM_PROG_CC_C_O' in `configure.in'
>>     
>
> Seen this to. Adding AM_PROG_CC_C_O to configure.in makes it go away so
> I committed that.
>
> http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=hal.git;a=commitdiff;h=7bb331ff82a796c0b6fc59017d72799f5b732822
>
>   
>> Finally I think you should release an PolicyKit snapshot this time.
>> I don't see the point to not have one but maybe I'm missing something here.
>>     
>
> Yea, but as I mentioned here
>
>  http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/hal/2007-March/007743.html
>   
> PolicyKit will undergo quite a few changes; something I plan to work on
> once 0.5.9 is out. Stay tuned!
>   

Thx for the info :) I was missing this  as well.
 
>      David
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>
>   


Gabriel