The docs configure option name used by hal has changed: --with-doc-dir does not work any more (docs default to /usr/share/doc/hal/), it's now: --docdir
Nice catch. Totally missed that. Thx. Committed.
It should be "--docdir=" instead of "--with-docdir=" http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/sys-apps/hal/hal-0.5.9-r1.ebuild?r1=1.7&r2=1.8
As #2 points out, the "with-" has gone from the name too.
done