OK well the RPM package did not work correctly with yast, so I downloaded the source code from svn.
./bootstrap gives the following warnings
configure.in:77: warning: macro `AM_OPTIONS_WXCONFIG' not found in library
configure.in:78: warning: macro `AM_PATH_WXCONFIG' not found in library
configure.in:78: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_PATH_WXCONFIG
I managed to overcome this and on ./configure and make I get,
libtool: Version mismatch error. This is libtool 2.2, but the
libtool: definition of this LT_INIT comes from an older release.
libtool: You should recreate aclocal.m4 with macros from libtool 2.2
libtool: and run autoconf again.
any tips?