> Is anybody able to build tdebase without HAL
> (WITH_HAL=OFF)?
> > Anybody?
> >
> > I'm dead in the water unless I can build without HAL.
> (Bug report 1132.)
> >
> 
> In file: tdm/backend/CMakeLists.txt
> Look at section "include_directories" (line 14)
> (notice the self-explanatory comment just above ...)
> 
> Inside this section, add another line just  after
> ${DBUS_TQT_INCLUDE_DIRS}
> ${DBUS_INCLUDE_DIRS}
> 
> And try again ...

Turns out this failure is more fundamental. After comparing builds with WITH_HAL=ON and WITH_HAL=OFF, I noticed the latter build never looked for dbus-tqt and always failed.

I found success with the following temporary patch:

=================================================
diff -urN tdebase/ConfigureChecks.cmake tdebase.new/ConfigureChecks.cmake
--- tdebase/ConfigureChecks.cmake 2012-06-10 11:52:38.000000000 -0500
+++ tdebase.new/ConfigureChecks.cmake 2012-08-11 21:59:00.000000000 -0500
@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@
       tde_message_fatal( "dbus-tqt-1 is required, but was not found on your system" )
     endif( )
   endif( )
-  if( WITH_HAL )
+#   if( WITH_HAL )
     # check for dbus-tqt
     # dbus-tqt need Qt flags
     pkg_check_modules( DBUS_TQT REQUIRED dbus-tqt )
@@ -284,6 +284,6 @@
     if( NOT HAVE_DBUS_QT3_07 )
       tde_message_fatal( "dbus-tqt is required, but was not found on your system" )
     endif( )
-  endif( )
+#   endif( )

 endif( )
=================================================

I considered changing if( WITH_HAL ) to if( WITH_HAL OR WITH_TDEHWLIB ), but I don't know whether WITH_TDEHWLIB is dependent upon dbus-tqt. I don't know whether dbus-tqt is required for all builds.

I really don't know what is the best all-around long-term solution for all distros.

Darrell