Re: Just realised HAL doesn't work with 2.4 kernels

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 12:38 -0400, Joseph E. Sacco, PhD wrote:
> Technology advances quickly...
> 
> Most of GARNOME will work without HAL

Yup.

I didn't try this myself (due to a lack of access to any 2.4 kernel ;)
but IIRC some folks reported successful builds of GARNOME on old
systems, like RH 9 (maybe even 8).

Basically you should start by commenting out hal and dbus LIBDEPS, so
that it won't be built automatically as a dependency. If any app just
won't build without it (like desktop/gnome-volume-manager IIRC) get rid
of those garballs. [1] A command like this [2] being run in your GARNOME
root tree will report hal LIBDEPS:

$ grep -H ^LIBDEPS */*/Makefile | grep hal

...guenther


[1] Moving the gnome-volume-manager or simply renaming with a leading
    dot will do.
[2] This time no creative usage of 'find'. ;)


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