hal

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On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 07:52:52 -0500, Dennis Veatch <dveatch at woh.rr.com> wrote:
> On Monday 16 January 2006 03:31, samuel verstraete wrote:
>> hi,
>>
>> I didn't want to screw with the hal module... i hardly understand
>> anything about it...
>> This morning i had to rebuild hal (due to the expat stuff) and it
>> failed to build... again with that dvd_rw stuff.
>> I checked the BUILD file and i commented the stuff about
>> module_installed kernel-headers-2.6... and hal builds again...
>>
>> no idea what is going with this thing... i have the kernel-headers
>> installed still it builds without the sedit line...
>>
>> Anyone care to explain why this line is there?
>>
>> $ lvu installed kernel-headers-2.6
>> 2.6.12.0-i386
>>
>> so it concerns these 3 lines...
>>
>>     if module_installed kernel-headers-2.6; then
>>         sedit "s:SG_FLAG_LUN_:SG_FLAG_UNUSED_LUN_:"
>>  hald/linux2/probing/linux_dvd_rw_utils.c fi  &&
>>
>>
>> gr,S.
> 
> I dunno why that's there and have done the samething as you to get hal to
> build on 2.6. Maybe it's supposed to be 2.4 headers instead? Dunno about
> that
> either cause I haven't run a 2.4 kernel for ages. Well, except for initial
> install with the older ISOs but quickly move over to 2.6.

hal is 2.6-kernels only - the sedit (afaics) was added because something is different in the (vanilla) kernel-headers and the "kernel-headers-2.6" headers. Might wanna verify if this is still the same.

Auke