building 1.8

[Thomas Bushnell BSG]

Christian Stimming <stimming at tuhh.de> writes:

> The other remark from you rather sounds like you should consider
> switching to a different distribution for some time. The world
> really doesn't revolve around Debian ;-) does it. I have of course
> zero idea why things wouldn't work on Debian, and I honestly
> couldn't care less. My point was that the current 1.8 tarball does
> happen to work on suse9.3 and that's it.

If by "current tarball" you mean the current distributed tarball, it
works fine on Debian.  Really, more specificity would help: are we
talking about Debian *what* (Neil?) and what is "the current tarball"?