Building a package for ScummVM 2.5.0

[Christian Britz <cbritz@t-online.de>]

Hello,

I am trying to build a Debian package for the latest ScummVM release for 
personal use and need help.
I have no deep knowledge of Debian packaging, but in the past I had some 
success with applying dh_make to source trees.

This is what I have done in the source folder:

dh_make -n -s -e aaa@bbb.ccc
fakeroot debian/rules binary

Output:

dh binary
   dh_update_autotools_config
   dh_autoreconf
   dh_auto_configure
    ./configure --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr 
--includedir=\${prefix}/include --mandir=\${prefix}/share/man 
--infodir=\${prefix}/share/info --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var 
--disable-option-checking --disable-silent-rules 
--libdir=\${prefix}/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu --runstatedir=/run 
--disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
Running ScummVM configure...
error: unrecognized option: --disable-option-checking
[...]

The configure script seems to be unable to deal with the parameter 
--disable-option-checking. Where is this set? The debian sub directory 
does not contain that string.

Running ./configure manually works fine.

I also played with the checkinstall tool without success, it seems to be 
irritated by faulty git files.

Regards,
Christian