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Re: [trinity-devel] Cmake issues: Building kdebase with HAL support

From: Darrell Anderson <humanreadable@...>
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 08:50:02 -0800 (PST)
> Several bug reports focus on TDE not
> displaying device icons on the desktop or the standard popup
> dialog when a new device is detected. Refer to bug reports
> 372, 385, 634 for starters.
> 
> These are serious usability bugs.
> 
> Today I started investigating. I discovered that HAL
> support is not enabled in the default cmake options. I don't
> know why that is the default.
> 
> I enabled HAL support with -DWITH-HAL=ON. The build failed
> for failing to find some header files. I submitted a small
> patch in bug report 755.
> 
> I don't think my patch is the best approach. Instead I
> think the following environment variables need to be
> defined:
> 
> $DBUS_TQT_LIBRARY_DIRS
> $HAL_INCLUDE_DIRS
> $HAL_LIBRARIES
> 
> Although referenced, I don't think these variables are
> defined anywhere in the cmake files. How do I patch the
> cmake files to know those locations?
> 
> I could hard-code those locations in my kdebase build
> script or build environment, but what is the proper
> approach?

Anybody?

Darrell