The least painful way to build the SLIC simulator package is using the SimDist CVS project.
This is the procedure.
cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.freehep.org:/cvs/lcd co SimDist cd SimDist ./build.sh
This will create the log files configure.log and build.log. The latter is "tailed" to check the progress of the build.
tail -f build.log
From the SimDist directory, the manual procedure is the following.
./configure make
To rebuild an individual package, e.g. CLHEP, set the PACKAGE variable as an argument to gmake.
make PACKAGE=clhep
Depending on your system speed, the entire build process will take around 2 hours.
This is currently a "work in progress" that is missing a few options, such as OpenGL visualization in Geant4.