Kino is a nice program, so go ahead ! Have you check all the libraries kino linked against are already packaged ? I thing about libraw1394 and libdv. Also start by sending upstream patchs to make the automake/autoconf files 'compliant', it will be better than patching Makefile.am in the diff.gz.
(I think especially about CXXFLAGS = -Wall -g -D_REENTRANT -DWITH_LIBDV CFLAGS = -Wall -g -D_REENTRANT at the end of src/Makefile.am) Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>