First: I never expected this project to be picked up by a dev anymore. So thank you for your time and energy!
I tried to compile the new wallet on Ubuntu 18.04 Desktop with QT5, but while running ./configure I get:
checking for RAND_egd in -lcrypto... no
configure: error: Detected LibreSSL: This is NOT supported, and may break consensus compatibility!
Is this to be expected as I'm running on 18.04 instead of 16.04, or is it a bug?
I know 18.04 is running libssl 1.1.0, while 16.04 uses 1.0 and 1.1.0 is sometimes seen as LibreSSL