And the patch added to the tacker entry which referes to the gento bugtracker.
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105776&aid=3272052&group_id=5776
Both patches megered into one.
The Problem is happens with 2.6.38 and newer kernel, that don't have v4l (1) in the public any more.
So the configure script fails (misserable) on Linux arcitectures.