在ubuntu下编译hiphop for php还是非常简单的，邮件列表里有人发的安装过程：

HipHop has been developed on CentOS and Fedora, building on Ubuntu 9.10 is experimental.
At the moment, HipHop can only run on 64 bits systems.

Packages installation

Using sudo or as root user:

sudo apt-get install git-core cmake g++ libboost-dev flex bison re2c libmysqlclient-dev libxml2-dev libmcrypt-dev libicu-dev openssl binutils-dev libcap-dev libgd2-xpm-dev zlib1g-dev libtbb-dev libonig-dev libpcre3-dev git-core autoconf libtool libcurl4-openssl-dev libboost-system-dev libboost-program-options-dev libboost-filesystem-dev

Getting HipHop source-code

mkdir hiphop
cd hiphop
git clone git://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php.git
cd hiphop-php
export CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=`/bin/pwd`/../
export HPHP_HOME=`/bin/pwd`
export HPHP_LIB=`/bin/pwd`/bin
git submodule init
git submodule update
cd ..

Building third-party libraries

libevent

wget http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent-1.4.13-stable.tar.gz
tar -xzvf libevent-1.4.13-stable.tar.gz
cd libevent-1.4.13-stable
cp ../hiphop-php/src/third_party/libevent.fb-changes.diff .
patch < libevent.fb-changes.diff
./configure --prefix=$CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH
make
make install
cd ..

ICU4

wget http://download.icu-project.org/files/icu4c/4.2.1/icu4c-4_2_1-src.tgz
tar -xvzf icu4c-4_2_1-src.tgz
cd icu/source
./configure --prefix=$CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH
make
make install
cd ../../

libCurl

Make sure that your system time is correct, otherwise ./configure will fail.

wget http://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-7.20.0.tar.gz
tar -xvzf curl-7.20.0.tar.gz
cd curl-7.20.0
cp ../hiphop-php/src/third_party/libcurl.fb-changes.diff .
patch -p0 < libcurl.fb-changes.diff
./configure --prefix=$CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH
make
make install
cd ..

Building HipHop

cd hiphop-php
cmake .
make