When I try to compile .59.8, I can run the ./configure script just fine. Then when I try to use make I get the following errors:
make[2]: *** [autorecon.so] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2

I dont know if I can use gmake on Mac OS X so possibly this is the problem??

Now when I try to compile the CVS release I get this error running the ./autogen.sh script:
./configure: line 11569: syntax error near unexpected token `PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GTKSPELL,'
./configure: line 11569: ` PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GTKSPELL, gtkspell-2.0 >= 2.0.2, , enable_gtkspell=no)'

At first I had to fight with it getting to see Gtk+2 installed but finally managed to get that to show up and work. Now I get this. Tried to install gtkspell, but that is telling me I am missing the dev files for aspell. I have aspell 0.50.2 installed (using apt-get) but cant find anything about a package or source for the libaspell files I think I need. Or are these installed when you compile and install aspell?

I even tried it using ./configure --disable-gtkspell, but that same error message still comes up.