Trying to compile NetworkManager

[Paul Howarth]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I'm running Fedora-3 with KDE.
> I've been trying to get a recent version of NM working on my laptop.
> (I was told this might help get NM running with my Orinoco Gold PCMCIA card.)
> 
> I first tried to install NetworkManager-0.4-6.cvs20050404.i386.rpm
> but this came up with a huge list of required packages
> which are not available in Fedora Core updates.
> I don't want to install a large number of rawhide packages,
> as the last time I did this it caused confusion (mainly due to the new python)
> which took a long time to correct.
> 
> So then I downloaded the CVS files following the instructions at
> <http://people.redhat.com/dcbw/NetworkManager/downloadcontribute.html>,
> and ran "./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc" as advised.
> This failed at the "configure" stage, but created a configure file.
> On running configure I get the error below,
> saying that I require hal >= 0.2.91 ,
> although I appear to have hal-0.4.7.
> Apparently configure is lookint for the file hal.pc
> which does not appear to be part of my system.
> 
> ================================================
> [tim at martha NetworkManager]$ ./configure
> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
> ...
> checking for hal >= 0.2.91... Package hal was not found in the pkg-config 
> search path.
> Perhaps you should add the directory containing `hal.pc'
> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> No package 'hal' found
> 
> configure: error: Library requirements (hal >= 0.2.91) not met; 
> consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them.
> [tim at martha NetworkManager]$ grep hal /var/log/rpmpkgs
> hal-0.4.7-1.FC3.i386.rpm
> hal-cups-utils-0.5.2-8.i386.rpm
> [tim at martha NetworkManager]$ locate hal.pc
> [tim at martha NetworkManager]$
> ================================================
> 
> Any suggestions or advice gratefully received.

When you are building software, you need the -devel packages for the 
libraries you are using (in this case you need hal-devel) in addition to 
the regular "runtime" libraries.

# yum install hal-devel

Paul.