>  Currently tdelibs/CMakeLists.txt has:
>option( WITH_HAL "Enable HAL support" OFF )
>
>  Does that mean that HAL is OFF by default now?

Yup. :)

When you build on a HAL system then manually add -DWITH_HAL=ON. I 
do that when I build for Slackware 13.1, a HAL system.

Darrell