HAL 0.5.10

[Bastien Nocera]

On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 16:39 +0300, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 02:12:04PM +0200, ext Danny Kukawka wrote:
> > On Montag, 15. Oktober 2007, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> > > 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? 
> 
> The build-time check doesn't add anything.  Most distributions worth
> their salt build in a minimal chroot with only the listed build
> dependencies there.
> 
> Does hal-info use HAL at build time?  If no, then there's zero reason it
> should be installed at build time, given that nothing stops me from
> using a completely different HAL version when installed as when built.
> I mean, you can check for it and fire a warning if you find an old
> version, but _requiring_ it for the _build_ is pretty pointless.

Having the check, even if it's a run-time one is useful to avoid people
installing a newer hal-info that won't do what it's supposed to once
installed.

I'm sure a patch to add a --disable-hal-check-i-know-what-im-doing would
be fine to add.

-- 
Bastien Nocera <hadess at hadess.net>