Any help or advice is really welcome; thanks!
-flesym
You 'll be better off downloading and building the CVS version. It's pretty stable and will become RC2 as it is now. Also the build system has changed, so all you have to do is:
./bootstrap
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install
Note that the --prefix argument is not really needed, but if you add it like above, you 'll find a nice menu entry in Applications/Programming after installation (might need a log-off/log-on) ;)