So after the kind help with ./configure, it ran to completion, and I invoked
make.
The make ran for oh... twenty minutes or so before arriving at:
g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -Igen -I./gen -DCPG -Werror -pedantic -Wall -Wextra
-Wno-shadow -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-qual -Wcast-align -Wno-long-long
-Wvolatile-register-var -Winvalid-pch -Wno-system-headers
-Woverloaded-virtual -g -O2 -MT qpid/amqp_0_10/Connection.lo -MD -MP -MF
qpid/amqp_0_10/.deps/Connection.Tpo -c qpid/amqp_0_10/Connection.cpp -fPIC
-DPIC -o qpid/amqp_0_10/.libs/Connection.o
In file included from ./qpid/broker/Connection.h:41,
from qpid/amqp_0_10/Connection.h:28,
from qpid/amqp_0_10/Connection.cpp:21:
./qpid/broker/ConnectionHandler.h:44: error: expected class-name before ','
token
./qpid/broker/ConnectionHandler.h:46: error: expected class-name before '{'
token
make[2]: *** [qpid/amqp_0_10/Connection.lo] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/peter/apps/qpid/cpp/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/peter/apps/qpid/cpp/src'
make: *** [all] Error 2
tough%
did an svn update, and tried again, to no avail.