After inheriting some Zend Framework code it didn't work, after lots of fiddling I've managed to create the schema and rebuild the models, although now I'm getting the following error:
Call to undefined method Criteria::hasSelectClause() in home/richard/library/om/BaseDomainPeer.php on line 329
Why would propel generate files that call unknown methods?
Turns out the code was built on a system using the beta version of propel, when i forced my system to use the beta version, it worked.
to use the beta version, go here