Please report bugs to libtorrent/rtorrent to the rtorrent website. He is more than willing to resolve bugs.
As a matter of fact the main developer has a shell on my machine and regularly testbuilds before releasing stuff to ensure it builds out of the box on OpenBSD. ~% sudo grep rak /var/log/sshd/current U Password: 2007-09-07 23:24:13.714581500 Accepted publickey for rakshasa from x.x.x.x port 3731 ssh2 2007-10-25 16:27:34.605498500 Accepted publickey for rakshasa from x.x.x.x port 59548 ssh2 2008-01-29 13:49:04.304542500 Accepted publickey for rakshasa from x.x.x.x port 47815 ssh2 # Han