gnome-volume-manager fails because it can't find hal [WAS: Re: garnome-2.8.0 fails building desktop/gnome-volume-manager because of dbus-glib-1]

[Raul Acevedo <raul cantara com>]

I got around this by installing dbus-0.22 from freedesktop.org, with a
prefix of $GARNOME.

Then it failed because it couldn't find hal... which I then downloaded
from freedesktop.org.  However, that's at version 0.2, and gnome-volume-
manager doesn't like it:

checking for libgnomeui-2.0 dbus-glib-1 >= 0.20 hal >= 0.2.97...
Requested 'hal >= 0.2.97' but version of hal is 0.2

There is no tarball of hal-0.2.97 on freedesktop.org, only of hal-0.2.
Help?

Raul