[PATCH] build: allow overriding D-Bus version from pkg-config

Kel Modderman kel
Thu Jan 12 13:01:44 PST 2012


> On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 11:15:18PM -0800, Grant Erickson wrote:
> > Searching through existing packages in my current project indicates that
> > avahi is doing something similar and has some conditional code based on the
> > extracted major and minor values:
> > 
> > % grep -ri 'DBUS_VERSION\(_MAJOR\|_MINOR\)' avahi/ connman/ dbus/ hostap/
> 
> > However, beyond the cited make files, hostap does nothing with them nor
> > does D-Bus itself.
> > 
> > That said, I am OK with getting rid of the checks altogether.
> 
> If no one can identify clear use for these, I would prefer to get rid of
> them rather than extending the parameters for some hypothetical use.
> 
> 

Was this why they were added?

http://lists.shmoo.com/pipermail/hostap/2007-November/016463.html

Maybe they're not needed today.

Thanks, Kel.



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