Trying to compile XFT branch on Ubuntu

[hannu . rajaniemi]

Hi,

As a long-time Mac user I've been spoiled by all sorts of superfluous
eye candy, so I thought I'd try to compile the recent XFT branch of CVS
Emacs that supports antialiased fonts on my other laptop running
Ubuntu. I got the code from Miles Bader's GnuArch repository as per
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/XftGnuEmacs,
and attempted to compile it. However, it appears something goes wrong
with leim: "sudo make bootstrap" produces
--------------------------------
 if [ x`(cd /home/hannu/emacs--xft-jhd--0--patch-1/leim && /bin/pwd)` =
x`(/bin/pwd)` ] ; then \
EMACSLOADPATH=/home/hannu/emacs--xft-jhd--0--patch-1/leim/../lisp
../src/emacs -batch --no-init-file --no-site-file --multibyte -l
/home/hannu/emacs--xft-jhd--0--patch-1/leim/../lisp/international/quail
\
--eval "(update-leim-list-file \".\")" ; \
else \
EMACSLOADPATH=/home/hannu/emacs--xft-jhd--0--patch-1/leim/../lisp
../src/emacs -batch --no-init-file --no-site-file --multibyte -l
/home/hannu/emacs--xft-jhd--0--patch-1/leim/../lisp/international/quail
\
--eval "(update-leim-list-file \".\"
\"/home/hannu/emacs--xft-jhd--0--patch-1/leim\")" ; \
fi
Updating /home/hannu/emacs--xft-jhd--0--patch-1/leim/leim-list.el ...
Loading vc-arch...
Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, nil
make[2]: *** [leim-list.el] Error 255
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/home/hannu/emacs--xft-jhd--0--patch-1/leim'
make[1]: *** [leim] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/hannu/emacs--xft-jhd--0--patch-1'
make: *** [bootstrap-build] Error 2
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I'm mystified and eyecandy-deficient. Any ideas and comments would be
much appreciated...

thanks in advance, 

- Hannu Rajaniemi