Hm, so that covers the first one. But what about the no git one, with the 8.0 snapshot? Is there any fix to be able to compile from web snapshots?

Git is failing, most likely due to dorm's restrictive firewall. I am trying to download snapshots from here: http://gitorious.org/crawl/crawl/trees/master/crawl-ref but for some reason, when trying to compile the snapshot from master, it starts working, but after a while I get an error: state.cc: In...