Problem install hal

jiewmeng · 2012-05-03 07:01:00

I am having problems installing hal from the AUR. I am getting errors like

/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gtypes.h:28:2: error: #error "Only <glib.h> can be included directly."
In file included from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gmain.h:29:0,
                 from addon-generic-backlight.c:38:
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gthread.h:28:2: error: #error "Only <glib.h> can be included directly."
In file included from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gthread.h:34:0,
                 from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gmain.h:29,
                 from addon-generic-backlight.c:38:
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gatomic.h:23:2: error: #error "Only <glib.h> can be included directly."
In file included from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gatomic.h:29:0,
                 from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gthread.h:34,
                 from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gmain.h:29,
                 from addon-generic-backlight.c:38:
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gtypes.h:28:2: error: #error "Only <glib.h> can be included directly."
In file included from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gthread.h:35:0,
                 from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gmain.h:29,
                 from addon-generic-backlight.c:38:
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gerror.h:22:2: error: #error "Only <glib.h> can be included directly."
In file included from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gerror.h:30:0,
                 from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gthread.h:35,
                 from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gmain.h:29,
                 from addon-generic-backlight.c:38:
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gquark.h:28:2: error: #error "Only <glib.h> can be included directly."
In file included from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gquark.h:34:0,
                 from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gerror.h:30,
                 from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gthread.h:35,
                 from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gmain.h:29,
                 from addon-generic-backlight.c:38:
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gtypes.h:28:2: error: #error "Only <glib.h> can be included directly."
make[5]: *** [addon-generic-backlight.o] Error 1

I understand this is an known issue and tried the workaround

I saw this problem earlier elsewhere, so I knew that I have to replace some includes to <glib.h>.
I went to the indicated directory and started fixing these problems.
E.g. in
/tmp/yaourt-tmp-archie/aur-hal/src/hal-0.5.14/hald/linux/addons/addon-generic-backlight.c
I replaced (line 38 as indicated above)
#include <glib/gmain.h>
to
#include <glib.h>
You get the idea. Sometimes <glib.h> was already included so I just needed to comment out (or delete) the additional glib includes.
Then you can run make in the directory which other files need changes. I needed to change these files:
addon-generic-backlight.c
addon-input.c
addon-ipw-killswitch.c
addon-leds.c
addon-rfkill-killswitch.c
addon-storage.c
addon-imac-backlight.c
addon-macbookpro-backlight.c
addon-usb-csr.c
Verify that make can run successfully in this directory. IMPORTANT: then create a copy of the .c files in this directory to some completely different directory (e.g. I copied them to /tmp/addons). This is needed, because when we restart the build in yaourt, these files will be overwritten. Maybe you could just move the whole directory or something like that.
Now it's time to restart the build in yaourt. You will get to a point when there are a lot of "checking <...>" lines. Press Ctrl Z now to stop this process.
Then restore the backed up .c files to the /tmp/yaourt-tmp-archie/aur-hal/src/hal-0.5.14/hald/linux/addons or similar dir (depends on your username).
Execute the fg program to resume the yaourt process. Now, with the patched source files hal should build normally and you are able to install hal.

I suppose yaourt is an AUR helper, I am using aurget, anyways, I edited the files to point to glib.h instead and run `makepkg -fsi`, but I still get similar errors, and it appears the errors originate from `/usr/include/...`? My AUR files are in /home/jiewmeng/hal/... is hal partially installed? I did use the force flag so it should overwrite old files?

swanson · 2012-05-03 07:17:56

Why do you want HAL? It is deprecated and the AUR package is out of date as well.

Gcool · 2012-05-03 07:20:12

Purely out of curiousity, why do you need HAL exactly?

EDIT: too slow. What swanson said basically.

Last edited by Gcool (2012-05-03 07:20:36)

jiewmeng · 2012-05-03 08:08:26

I am installing other packages from the AUR and it appears to need HAL.

aurget -S --deps --noedit lightdm lightdm-gtk-greeter thunar-shares-plugin gnome-do titanium-studio sublime-text retext qtoctave ttf-google-webfonts nodejs-npm xfce-theme-greybird faenza-icon-theme dockmanager docky xfwm4-tiling ttf-computer-modern-fonts

I am guessing its probably `thunar-shares-plugin`

swanson · 2012-05-03 08:43:13

Thunar 1.2.x and up does not need hal. it needs gvfs so that plugin is old too.

magicalChicken · 2012-05-03 13:18:39

Yeah, avoid hal it is extremely buggy, avoid it as it is no longer needed y anything new.

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#1 2012-05-03 07:01:00

Problem install hal

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Re: Problem install hal

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Re: Problem install hal

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Re: Problem install hal

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Re: Problem install hal

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