I tried to package 1.0rc2 for debian experimental, but it doesn't work because freedroidRPG doesn't get installed.

I tried to go in src/ and run "make install DESTDIR=/tmp/toto", and indeed, the /tmp/toto/usr/games/ directory gets created, but nothing gets put inside!

I tried to have a look at Makefile.am, but didn't spot anything obvious.

I tried to start from the raw tarball, autogen.sh, configure --prefix=/tmp/toto, build, run "make install" in src/ : /tmp/toto/bin gets created but there's nothing inside.

So I think it's not just my packaging getting bad : there's something fishy upstream.

Oh, found the problem : if gawk isn't found, then the configure script still ends happily, so you can go on compiling ; but when you try to install, for the install target of freedroidRPG, then there's a problem because AWK=''. But that error doesn't make "make" unhappy either! So you end up with a failed install, even though there's no reported error. You have to check in the logs to find out about it.

For the Debian package, I'll apply change the following configure.ac line:
AC_PATH_PROG([AWK], [gawk], [])    dnl GNU version of awk awk is needed in some po/ scripts

to:
AC_PATH_PROGS([AWK], [gawk mawk], [])

I haven't seen the problem with mawk and the po/ scripts...

(Notice that I don't fix the problem with erroring out of the configure script if no awk is found - I just make so it finds more often what is needed)

Oh, I just see that it's a duplicate of #868 : rejecting my own report!