On Tue, 16 Aug 2011, Detlef Riekenberg wrote: [...]
Recent distributions depend on udisks, so the libhal development package should be uninstalled or disabled when building Wine (--without-hal).
I don't understand this recommendation to build with '--without-hal'.
It should be possible to build a Wine binary that will run on both old HAL-based Linux distributions and the new usdisks-based ones. Such a binary would need to be built with both HAL and udisks support. Are you saying your patch makes that is impossible?