[Nut-upsdev] Buildbot doesn build hal

[Charles Lepple]

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 8:57 AM, Arnaud Quette <aquette.dev at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/10/20 Arjen de Korte <nut+devel at de-korte.org>:
>> Charles,
>>
>> It looks like the buildbot no longer builds (if it ever did, I don
>> remember) the HAL addons, even if the requirements are met:
>>
>> configure:9680: checking for libhal version via pkg-config (0.5.8
>> minimum required)
>> configure:9690: result: 0.5.11 found
>> configure:9694: checking for libhal cflags via pkg-config
>> configure:9703: result: -DDBUS_API_SUBJECT_TO_CHANGE
>> -I/usr/include/hal -I/usr/include/dbus-1.0 -I/usr/lib/dbus-1.0/include
>> -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include
>> configure:9707: checking for libhal ldflags via pkg-config
>> configure:9716: result: -L/lib -lhal -ldbus-glib-1 -ldbus-1
>> -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0
>> configure:9720: checking for libhal user via pkg-config
>> configure:9729: result: haldaemon
>> configure:9738: checking for hal-0.5.11 device match key
>> configure:9747: result: info.subsystem
>> configure:9755: checking for libhal Callouts path
>> configure:9776: result: using default (${exec_prefix}/lib/hal)
>> configure:9785: checking for libhal Device Information path
>> configure:9795: result: ${prefix}/share/hal/fdi/information/20thirdparty
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> configure:27034: checking whether to enable HAL support
>> configure:27036: result: no
>>
>> This is probably due to the fact that building HAL addons is not
>> enabled automatically, but needs to be enabled specifically
>> (configure.in):
>>
>>     NUT_ARG_WITH([hal], [build and install HAL support], [no])
>>
>> As far as I know, we did this on purpose so that people who only want
>> to use the 'classic' NUT, don get stumped by the automatic
>> installation of the HAL addons.
>>
>> However, for the buildbot it would be nice if it would try to build
>> the HAL addons if the requirements are met. Is it possible to add
>> --with-hal=auto to the configuration flags for the buildbot?
>>
>
> I thought buildbot was using distcheck... so --with-all which results
> in also building hal support code.

This means that it depends on each builder machine having the correct
libraries installed. I know I didn't bother to do that for the FreeBSD
box, but the Ubuntu box should have them, and the Debian box probably
doesn't.

Looks like everything is OK - let me know if you see anything else
that does not appear normal.

-- 
- Charles Lepple