2011/9/7 Serghei Amelian serghei@thel.ro:
On Wednesday 07 September 2011 22:38:07 Timothy Pearson wrote:
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As far as I can tell, yes. ksmserver relies on HAL at the moment, and the appropriate #ifdef logic has not yet been added to the code to disable HAL.
HAL is simply a small background process that should not affect anything else on your system. Why doesn't it work on Gentoo?
On Gentoo HAL cannot be installed with newer versions of udev.
Tim
-- Serghei
Yep. It's masked and I can imagine it will be hell getting it working... and I'm not really up to reinstalling my gentoo if I mess badly trying to install hal.
OK. I should mention that HAL's replacements (DeviceKit and its pieces) are more limited than HAL. This impacts Trinity, as one of its design goals is to expose as much useful information to the user as possible. Currently we strongly recommend to use HAL when possible, as there is no direct replacement for it under Linux at this time.
Tim
Can you try this patch against kdebase to see if it enables compilation without HAL support?
Thanks!
Tim
BTW Serghei, I decided to handle this one so you don't need to waste your time on it. I'm learning CMake slowly, bit by little bit... ;-)