Building JOGL on linux (Mint 12)

Hello there,
Git cloned both jogl and gluegen and trying to build these on my linux desktop.
Gluegen builds with ant just fine, but jogl spouts out the following:

/jogamp/jogl/make/build-nativewindow.xml:685: gcc failed with return code 1

I'm really clueless on gcc and what this means exactly, and the xml file gives me little hope to find this out myself.

(JDK 7, 64 bit, gcc version 4.6.1 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.1-9ubuntu3))

Sometimes it helps to just vent it seems,
I scrolled up and noticed a fatal error, missing the xf86vmode.h file.

sudo apt-get install libxxf86vm-dev

fixed that, and it went ahead and built just fine.

Hope this atleast helps other newbies.

A newbie should read the "howtobuild" before building JOGL:
http://jogamp.org/jogl/doc/HowToBuild.html

You may have to install a few developer packages ...

libxxf86vm-dev

This info is also on the wiki at http://jogamp.org/wiki/index.php/Building_JOGL_on_the_command_line -- just adding this link in case someone searches the forum and finds this thread later