any chance, those who succeeded _building_ navit from source could describe in detail, what they did?

i am fighting with automake as others did and face the same issues already asked for -- without any answers so far.

additionally, i have a hard time to understand why navit on maemo is such a hassle (simply dies after about 2 minutes w/o segfault or something) when it works well (though not that fast) on the freerunner with shr or debian.
i'd expected it to work fast and reliable on the n900.