HAL 0.5.10

Danny Kukawka danny.kukawka at web.de
Wed Nov 28 13:16:31 PST 2007


On Montag, 15. Oktober 2007, Michael Biebl wrote:
> What sjoerd tried to say (and I myself too) is, that it doesn't really
> help to add a build time check, as the resulting binary package could
> be installed in combination with an incompatible hal version. As most
> of the users used precompiled packages (in from of debs or rpms) it
> would be better to document such dependencies/conflicts in the NEWS
> file so package maintainers can declare the correct dependencies
> between the binary packages.

I have replaced the AC_MSG_ERROR with a AC_MSG_WARN and print a big 
warning message in the configure summary. 

Btw. We should may think about a way to check if the installed hal-info 
package in the system match to the installed HAL version on runtime when the 
fdi-cache get generated.

Danny


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