I have decided to move to the SVN version of amaroK, as it has a true gapless playback, so I\'ve heard.
I\'m using Arch Linux, and have fetched it from the Arch User Repository. (I think that my problem is not distribution-related so I post it here)

So, building the amarok-base package went well and I can run it with no problems with the void-engine.
When building the xine-engine, it passes all the ./configure parts well, and then I get an error. here\'s the output:



[code:1] ==========================
=== amaroK - WARNING ========================================================
==========================
=
= The optional GStreamer-engine will not be built. If you want to use the
= powerful GStreamer multimedia framework with amaroK, please download
= version or higher from http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
= If you are sure GStreamer is already installed then there is most likely a
= problem with your pkg-config setup, see amarok/README
=
==========================
=== amaroK - INFORMATION ====================================================
==========================
=
= exscalibar could not be found, this means that support for Moodbar
= will be disabled.
=
==========================
=== amaroK - PLUGINS ========================================================
==========================
=
= The following extra functionality will NOT be included:
= - aRts-engine
= - GStreamer-engine
= - NMM-engine
= - MAS-engine
= - Helix-engine
= - MySql Support
= - Postgresql Support
= - Moodbar Support
= - iRiver iFP Support
=
= The following extra functionality will be included:
= + xine-engine
= + libvisual Support
= + XMMS Visualization Wrapper
= + Konqueror Sidebar
= + MusicBrainz Support
= + MP4/AAC Tag Support
= + iPod Support (with Artwork)
=
===============================================================================

Good - your configure finished. Start make now

amarok/src/engine/xine/Makefile.am: no rule to create target: ../../../../amarok/src/engine/libengine.la(../../../../amarok/src/engine/xine/libamarok_xine-engine.la)
==> ERROR: Build Failed. Aborting...
==> ERROR: Reverting pkgver...
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The last two lines are erros from Arch\'s building system.

If you want to see the file that has instructions on how to build the package, here it is. It\'s pretty straightforward. (I removed some un-relevant parts from the beginning of the file.)

[code:1]
_svntrunk=svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/extragear
_svnbranch=svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/branches/KDE/3.5/kde-common
_svnmod=multimedia
_svnmodb=admin

build() {
cd $startdir/src
touch ~/.subversion
svn co -N $_svntrunk/$_svnmod
cd $_svnmod
svn co $_svnbranch/$_svnmodb
svn up amarok
unsermake -f Makefile.cvs
./configure --prefix=/opt/kde --without-arts --without-gstreamer
cd amarok/src/engine/xine
unsermake || return 1
unsermake prefix=$startdir/pkg/opt/kde install
}
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Help will be greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance.

This build script looks weird. Use the \"amarok-svn\" script from kde-apps.org instead.

Well, it solved the problem - amaroK-svn is now installed with xine-engine and running, but unfortunately, I don\'t have a true gapless playback.
But I guess this issue is closed, I will reply in the General Discussion forum.