Compiling Wesnoth using scons

Building and Installing Wesnoth from source is supposed to be this easy:

#update the working copy
>svn update

# Build
>scons

#Install
>scons install

Best Instructions I’ve found are at:  http://www.wesnoth.org/wiki/CompilingWesnoth

Some hints:

1. compiling requires dev version of libraries    Development files–
   This package contains files needed if you wish to use the xxxx
   library in your own programs.
2. read the build and install output.  Look for missing libraries!

sample output — read the error messages!!

checking for Boost smart_ptr library… (cached) yes
Checking for Simple DirectMedia Layer library version >= 1.2.7… yes
Checking for SDL_net library… no
Base prerequisites are not met.
Client prerequisites are not met. wesnoth, cutter and exploder cannot be built.
Checking for C library X11… yes
Checking for fribidi_utf8_to_unicode(NULL,0,NULL) in C library fribidi… no
Can’t find libfribidi, disabling freebidi support.
Checking for C header file poll.h… yes
Checking for C header file sys/poll.

was SDL-net in ubuntu … not SDL_net

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