[SOLVED] Is it possible to install HAL on Slackware 14.1?

wildwizard · 12-02-2013, 06:28 AM

Perhaps you want a package for this?

https://github.com/cshorler/hal-flash/

ponce · 12-02-2013, 06:40 AM

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Originally Posted by wildwizard

Perhaps you want a package for this?

https://github.com/cshorler/hal-flash/

If someone submit a tested SlackBuild to SBo for that and it works fine, why not?

fskmh · 12-02-2013, 12:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ponce

If someone submit a tested SlackBuild to SBo for that and it works fine, why not?

Done. ;-)

xj25vm · 12-02-2013, 01:24 PM

Great stuff guys! Thank you - just what was needed. If the above mentioned online video providers drop their use of HAL at some point, it can always be removed from SBo on future iterations.

ReaperX7 · 12-02-2013, 08:22 PM

HAL is obsolete by Linux standards but it's still a universal UNIX standard piece of software. I actually think an SBo might be a good idea to keep it at least maintained.

I actually still install and build against the full HAL package on LFS. You'll need the latest version of HAL 0.5.14 and these patches I think to build against video4linux2, or block it.

I think Gentoo and OpenSUSE still has a list of patches for HAL.

https://github.com/dang/hal-patches/tree/master/patches

https://build.opensuse.org/package/s...SE:Dropped/hal

I also posted this link a while back for a patch too:

https://launchpadlibrarian.net/64645...buntu1.debdiff

I got it to build with some work.

willysr · 12-04-2013, 10:37 PM

It's approved in SBo and waiting to be merged into master
http://slackbuilds.org/cgit/slackbui...7e77ed6d6a0a7b

jtsn · 12-04-2013, 11:35 PM

VMware still requires hald (the full implementation, not a stub library). So I think having a "hal-flash" isn't a good idea.

willysr · 12-05-2013, 01:01 AM

i guess hal-flash is for another purpose and probably someone will push hal to SBo

fskmh · 12-05-2013, 02:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jtsn

VMware still requires hald (the full implementation, not a stub library). So I think having a "hal-flash" isn't a good idea.

I see Arch have hal in the AUR. Looks like quite a few apps still require it.

ReaperX7 · 12-05-2013, 04:04 AM

Yeah we need to get this into an SBo. HAL needs to be maintained. DeviceKit and udev simply can not provide what HAL can.

Richard Cranium · 12-05-2013, 04:16 AM

Interestingly, the Slackware 14.1 /etc/rc.d/rc.M file still has the stanza...

Code:

# Start HAL:
if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.hald ]; then
  sh /etc/rc.d/rc.hald start
fi

...in it.

55020 · 12-05-2013, 05:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Richard Cranium

if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.hald ]; then

Defensive coding ftw

aaazen · 04-25-2014, 02:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bertman123

No need to compile from source. Just install hal and hal info from here.

http://mirrors.slackware.com/slackwa...slackware64/l/

Thank you. I spent a lot of time running in circles, from installing 13.37 in another partition to installing hal-flash.

The only thing that worked was simply installing flash from 13.37 into my 14.1 Slackware system.

Sometimes the simple solution is the best one.

ReaperX7 · 04-25-2014, 07:28 PM

I just built HAL 0.5.14 using ponce's fixes and it works.

This would bring it up to release 0.5.14-4 technically. Good job ponce. I added your fixes to this SlackBuild so if anyone needs it, just grab the 13.37 HAL sources and use this to compile it.

sunjob · 08-06-2018, 08:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ReaperX7

I just built HAL 0.5.14 using ponce's fixes and it works.

This would bring it up to release 0.5.14-4 technically. Good job ponce. I added your fixes to this SlackBuild so if anyone needs it, just grab the 13.37 HAL sources and use this to compile it.

good day!

please, give me/all arc-slackBuild dir/pack with full-lists patches, shell etc.

thanks

p.s.
found it later. this archive?
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