Compiling libdrizzle is a rather trivial task. The following are the steps I undertook on Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid 32 bit.
There was one pre-requisite from the most basic installed developer tools.
sudo apt-get install -y automake
bzr clone lp:libdrizzle cd libdrizzle ./config/autorun.sh ./configure make make install
And there they are:
$ ls -l /usr/local/lib/libdrizzle* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1122710 2009-04-26 18:10 /usr/local/lib/libdrizzle.a -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 940 2009-04-26 18:10 /usr/local/lib/libdrizzle.la lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 2009-04-26 18:10 /usr/local/lib/libdrizzle.so -> libdrizzle.so.0.0.2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 2009-04-26 18:10 /usr/local/lib/libdrizzle.so.0 -> libdrizzle.so.0.0.2 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1003734 2009-04-26 18:10 /usr/local/lib/libdrizzle.so.0.0.2
I added the following to enable other programs using libdrizzle to find the libraries in the system path.
echo "/usr/local/lib" > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/drizzle.conf ldconfig
