never play wesnoth because can't build nowadays

[bkerin]

Back in autoconf days I played, every now and then I check in
to see if I can build it but it never works now.

Is there a set of debian packages for debian 4.3.5 that are known
to work? The latest showstopper for me is that my sdl apparently
doesn't have ogg vorbit support (errors below) but I have all the
sdl packages I can find installed and can't find any that mention
ogg in particular.

Thanks,
Britton

Checking for Ogg Vorbis support in SDL... (cached) no
Client prerequisites are not met. wesnoth, cutter and exploder cannot be built.
Unit tests are disabled because their prerequisites are not met.
If any config checks fail, look in build/config.log for details
If a check fails spuriously due to caching, use --config=force to force its rerun
scons: done reading SConscript files.
scons: Building targets ...
error_action(["wesnoth"], [])
scons: *** [wesnoth] Target disabled because its prerequisites are not met
scons: building terminated because of errors.

[Pentarctagon]

Moved to the Compiling and Installation forum.

[Iris]

Is there a set of debian packages for debian 4.3.5 that are known to work?

That version number doesn’t seem right... but assuming you do mean Debian 4.0 (etch), well, given its support status I’d really consider upgrading. We currently only officially support current Debian stable (wheezy) and oldstable (squeeze). For running current Wesnoth versions on anything older than that, odds are that you’ll have to build the game and some or all of its library dependencies from source (at least those with system versions that don’t satisfy the requirements listed in our INSTALL file (1.11.x | 1.10.x)), assuming they can even be built or run against such an old environment.