When running glint, if some libraries are not properly set up, it dies without reporting ANY error, therefore with no clue as to what to fix. (I believe it was a problem with libnewt needing __bzero (submitted as part of a sndconfig bug report) that caused this, but it's been a week.) Fix: be sure that output from executables which indicate problems such as bad shared libs are reported visibly.
Thanks for the suggestion. It has been noted.