Installing from CVS on Mandrake9.1

[Lasker]

As you probably know I had some problems with installing VS from RPMs on Mandrake 9.1, so I had to compile from CVS sources.
Although I could run the game, I hadn't access to vssetup and that left me without sound, 800x600 only and 2 axis joystick (without thrust, no rolling on my pedals).
But now I made a giant step forward and managed both compiling from CVS AND access to vssetup!
Of course I want to share what steps I made different this time.
I didn't really expect to solve anything serious, the main reason for my changes was to get rid of some anoying compiler warnings:

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src/cmd/script/c_alike/Makefile.am:10: `CXXFLAGS' is a user variable, you should not override it;
src/cmd/script/c_alike/Makefile.am:10: use `AM_CXXFLAGS' instead.

Only a warning, which multiplies during the hole compiling process. I did exactly what's recommended.
The next one was a compiler directive warning about malign:
So I changed in all make- and configure- files every entry with
malign-loops, malign-jumps and malign-functions into falign-loops etc.

That was it!
Now I can start vssetup from /usr/local/share/vegastrike/data
Really don't know, why my changes should have done the trick, but otherwise, I did nothing else...

As an addition, I still get this after leaving a game:

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Thank you for playing!
Writing Save Game Viperexplore_universe_difficultyWARNING: no var named serialized_xml in section data using default: serialized_xml
MakingSharedPath serialized_xmlMakingSharedPath serialized_xml/ViperHi helper play 0

What does it mean?

[hellcatv]

that just means it's saving things

[Lasker]

that just means it's saving things

The obvious part of the message, I referred to the warning in it.