HAL 0.5.10

[Danny Kukawka]

On Montag, 15. Oktober 2007, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 02:57:49PM +0200, Danny Kukawka wrote:
[...]
> > The hal-info package need a HAL >= 0.5.10 due to new fdi-directives
> > (*_outof) which wouldn't work with older HAL versions. It make no sense
> > to use this hal-info version with hal =< 0.5.10 since you would lose many
> > of the fdi-rules.
>
> Still having configure doing check for things that only matter at runtime
> is a bad practise IMHO. A warning instead of abort would be okay. But with
> the current check, we can't create the hal-info packages without hal, which
> is quite annoying.

This is nothing new. You couldn't build all features of the package (e.g. 
KillSwitch feature) without HAL before. It make simply no sense to build 
hal-info for systems with older HAL versions. Do you have a build system 
without minimal install which didn't contain HAL? 

Danny