I am trying to build hal-0.5.12. The error message I get while configuring hal is
checking for BLKID... configure: error: Package requirements (blkid >= 1.43) were not met:
Requested 'blkid >= 1.43' but version of blkid is 1.41.5
http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/ says the latest version is 1.41.5.