Wow this thing is strange.
It appears that you build in place, and by that I mean all the install
documentation I found says you go ahead and extract the archive to
it's installation place and build it.
You even have to source a bashrc file just to set it up so it will
build. I'm building now. I think I found system versions for
everything in the ThridParty archive except for two items.
I'll get this as far as I care to and package it up in an SRPM if you
want to finish it.
Richard