[oop.. left this email unsent yesterday]
For those who were wondering.. I left out libglib2.0-dev and bison and flex.
Here's the revised instructions for a Debian-based 3.5 build.
% sudo apt-get install ca-certificates xinetd perl gettext bsd-mailx dpkg-dev \
debhelper dump gnuplot-nox libtool mtx smbclient \
libcurl4-gnutls-dev libncurses5-dev libreadline-dev libssl-dev \
docbook-xsl swig xsltproc libglib2.0-dev bison flex
% git clone git://github.com/zmanda/amanda.git
% cd amanda
% git checkout -b 3_5mine origin/3_5
% bash autogen && ./packaging/deb/buildpkg
It worked for Debian Stretch and Ubuntu 18.04. I'm interested what older
platforms fail, if some know of them? Thanks. (Note: this is for 3.5.1 only,
in effect and I'll submit a pull request for trunk soon.)
-- CH