I'm not sure if we still have a tutorial, but I'll take a look.

For the server, it should compile out of the box (you might have to chmod +x the configure file):
./configure
make
make install
Your error isn't very descriptive, there should be more above that. If you pipe that to a text file you can post the entire contents so I can take a closer look.

For the client, you'll need to make sure all the libraries are installed. Because you're using make, I'll assume you're on some form of Linux, but installing the libraries still depends on which distro. I believe Ubuntu and Debian have the libs in their repositories so you should be able to use apt-get. For most other distros you'll likely have to compile them yourself. The libraries are: libsdl1.2 libsdl1.2-dev libsdl1.2_mixer libsdl1.2_mixer-dev libsdl1.2_image libsdl1.2_image-dev libphysfs libphysfs-dev(?) libcurl

After that, run ./bootstrap in the make directory and compile the same way as the server.

Hope that helps!