the thing that you reported this to me today, and the autobuild system is few monthes old, tells me that too little people are using devel_. and most devel_ users are on linux ...
definitely (and sadly) true. it seems, that you and thomas g. are the only ones.
A fact is, that i'm currently not _working_ on Linux - i'm on Windows where i naturally don't use the autoconf stuff. Apart from that devel_0_38 works as expected (and it has some nice additions that i don't want to miss).
best greetings, Thomas