I'm hesitant to continue this topic in this thread because it could become a distro war. K/Ubuntu is based on debian and might not have the required automake version. even so, that doesn't solve the problem. it would be better to make the compile process work on debian since it is the base of many ...

I mean unstable in the Debian sense. i could probably get a testing version from etch that 'might' work but the toolchain is supposed to be different and who knows what other depends would be installed as well. it might give me incompatible versions of glibc etc. etc. This is the problem with debian ...

I tried to compile d2x-xl on Debian sarge amd64 but ran into issues. Started talking with Dietfrid and am now posting here. Has anyone else tried to make d2x or d2x-xl work in 64 bit? First problem I ran into was the requirement of automake 1.5. sarge seems to only have 1.4. 1.5 and 1.7 are listed ...