Built on ubuntu 16 just fine and the only testing I did, was to render the video each with TIFF sequence, TGA, and JPEG (I guess I forgot to do PNG).
BUT Debian 9 32-bit fails and not sure which patches caused the failure. Below is end of log and I will send just to you the whole log and I am looking at it also, but you may be faster.
cc1: warning: unrecognized command line option ‘-Wno-stringop-truncation’
cc1: warning: unrecognized command line option ‘-Wno-format-overflow’
cc1: warning: unrecognized command line option ‘-Wno-format-truncation’
cc1: warning: unrecognized command line option ‘-Wno-stringop-overflow’
make[2]: Leaving directory '/tmp/cinelerra-5.1_testing/cinelerra-5.1/mpeg2enc'
Makefile:583: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/tmp/cinelerra-5.1_testing/cinelerra-5.1'
Makefile:530: recipe for target 'all' failed