I have tried to compiled current Codeblocks (rev 3087) on Fedora using "configure; make; make install" and I think there is a small problem with the lib_finder plugin that it is not fully autotools-aware. So I have created a small patch which adds a "Makefile.am" in lib_finder/lib_finder subdir (it then installs the xml files into /usr/share/codeblocks/lib_finder) and modifies lib_finder/Makefile.am so it installs the zip file containing the manifest.xml. It is stored as patch #1564 at Berlios.