I know you find it frustrating.
But let's take that example into the windows world. How about a simple, but old, USB drive I lent someone the other day. My friend goes home, plugs it into his windows system. No drivers. End of story.
Here, at least you have a fighting chance. ;)
I've seen it a zillion times where some piece of hardware has a driver for win98 but not xp or vice-versa and you just can't do a damn thing about it. And the situation is far worse on a mac. People complain about wireless on linux--you should try to get a random pcmcia wireless card going on a mac--good luck.
That said, to hell with mainstream anyways. ;)
Your key line is:
Code:
SDL/SDL.h: No such file or directory
Your solution:
Code:
apt-get update
apt-get install SDL-devel ImageMagick-devel
And where else would you find better customer support? ;)
(including the up-and-coming galaxy-wide telephone support)
-Jeff