I've got a few free days over the Xmas period, and I've been having a look at porting the FairdiceApplications? over to Debian Linux.
It looks like the missing libraries are libm and libpthread so editing the makefile to add the lines to EXTERNAL -lm -lpthread should do the trick. I shall investigate further to confirm, then update the cvs.
What I'd really like to do is use configure to produce system dependant makefiles, and release a proper debian package that people can use aptget with. Anyone out there know how to do this and willing to give some advice?