Has anyone else got this working? There is no namecoind target in the makefile, so i built bitcoind. My daemon is currently sitting at 0 blocks and doesn't recognize calls such as name_list and name_scan.
What exactly have you built? There should indeed be a namecoind. If you got bitcoind, then perhaps you checked out the wrong branch? We do keep "bitcoin" and "auxpow" branches in our repo for the purpose of tracking upstream development. You want the "master" branch.