Is it me or is there something a bit fishy about the Hoary xmame packages ?

I am all set up for the standard Ubuntu repositories, plus universe and multiverse.

Using apt to install xmame (either the sdl or x11 version) I get the following error when I try to run it

"error: compiled byte ordering doesn't match machine byte ordering are you sure you choose the right arch? compiled for msb-first, are you sure you choose the right cpu in makefile.unix"

No mention of it being a problem on the Ubuntu wiki and the guys on #ubuntu don't seem to have heard of it before either.

Being that I was in the need for some serious legacy game action, I tried building advancemame from source...Got it built but I forgot that the framebuffer on ubuntu machines using the Nvidia drivers is broken...advancemame only supports fb mode AFAIK.