Ah ha. found a few things that it seams to depend on which i didnt have. There possibly included on some distributions or within other packages but for anyone on Ubuntu 7.04 atleast they are:

pkg-config*
libusb*
libtool
openssl*
boost*
automake*
autoconf*
libssl

* are mentioned in the readme, the others are not. Now to spend my time getting the gui compiled