Stupid me, I was looking at the main site. OK, I compiled it just fine. The only difference I saw was that SVN version generates huge amount of warnings and notes, like:
/usr/include/wx-2.8/wx/radiobox.h: In member function 'void wxToolTipArray::Remove(_wxArraywxToolTipArray)':
/usr/include/wx-2.8/wx/debug.h:194:43: warning: typedef 'wxDummyCheckInt' locally defined but not used [-Wunused-local-typedefs]
#define wxFORCE_SEMICOLON typedef int wxDummyCheckInt
^
/usr/include/wx-2.8/wx/debug.h:224:9: note: in expansion of macro 'wxFORCE_SEMICOLON'
wxFORCE_SEMICOLON /* just to force a semicolon */
^
/usr/include/wx-2.8/wx/dynarray.h:353:7: note: in expansion of macro 'wxCHECK2_MSG'
wxCHECK2_MSG( iIndex != wxNOT_FOUND, return, \
^
/usr/include/wx-2.8/wx/dynarray.h:486:5: note: in expansion of macro '_WX_DEFINE_TYPEARRAY_HELPER'
_WX_DEFINE_TYPEARRAY_HELPER(T, name, base, classexp, _WX_PTROP_NONE)
^
/usr/include/wx-2.8/wx/dynarray.h:669:5: note: in expansion of macro '_WX_DEFINE_TYPEARRAY_PTR'
_WX_DEFINE_TYPEARRAY_PTR(_wxArray##name, name, base, classdecl)
^
/usr/include/wx-2.8/wx/dynarray.h:655:5: note: in expansion of macro 'WX_DEFINE_TYPEARRAY_WITH_DECL_PTR'
WX_DEFINE_TYPEARRAY_WITH_DECL_PTR(T, name, base, class WXDLLEXPORT)
^
/usr/include/wx-2.8/wx/dynarray.h:829:5: note: in expansion of macro 'WX_DEFINE_EXPORTED_TYPEARRAY_PTR'
WX_DEFINE_EXPORTED_TYPEARRAY_PTR(T, name, wxBaseArrayPtrVoid)
^
/usr/include/wx-2.8/wx/radiobox.h:25:1: note: in expansion of macro 'WX_DEFINE_EXPORTED_ARRAY_PTR'
WX_DEFINE_EXPORTED_ARRAY_PTR(wxToolTip *, wxToolTipArray);
^
/usr/include/wx-2.8/wx/valtext.h: In member function 'bool wxTextValidator::CheckValidator() const':
/usr/include/wx-2.8/wx/debug.h:194:43: warning: typedef 'wxDummyCheckInt' locally defined but not used [-Wunused-local-typedefs]
#define wxFORCE_SEMICOLON typedef int wxDummyCheckInt
^
/usr/include/wx-2.8/wx/debug.h:224:9: note: in expansion of macro 'wxFORCE_SEMICOLON'
wxFORCE_SEMICOLON /* just to force a semicolon */
^
/usr/include/wx-2.8/wx/debug.h:186:38: note: in expansion of macro 'wxCHECK2_MSG'
#define wxCHECK_MSG(cond, rc, msg) wxCHECK2_MSG(cond, return rc, msg)
^
/usr/include/wx-2.8/wx/valtext.h:103:9: note: in expansion of macro 'wxCHECK_MSG'
wxCHECK_MSG( m_validatorWindow->IsKindOf(CLASSINFO(wxTextCtrl)), false,
^