Hi,
attached is a small fix to the externals-build Makefile, which I had to do to let Hans' linux-installer compile several externals.
Also attached is another patch which I had to apply to fix the scripts/checkout-developer-layout.sh for me.
Actually I'm trying out the new build system to finally use it to do Debian packages using the unified build, which in my view seems like a good idea. However I see some issues with that. For one, running curl to download stuff from the web while building is not acceptable in a Debian package, which has to build without net connection as well. (Actually it would be nice to have the Externals-HOWTO in CVS anyways.)
Currently I just disable the curl stuff in the central Makefile. (Btw: Some html-generation is using the <font>-tag, which is deprecated and even illegal in some dialects of HTML.)
Then using /usr as a prefix will not install pd in /usr/bin, but still in /usr/local/bin. I haven't found out yet, where to change that.
Ciao