How the heck did you get it to build? It's been how many years since the
last release?

Ha! This is a nice question.
Guys at irc channel #ladi helped me, namely falkTX and nedko. The problem was in some include file which I had to comment out in the source and that's all. I think it is nice in the repos in PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~falk-t-j/+archive/lucid/+index?start=300&batch=75

There is a jaunty package as well.

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