These are the steps to install Thrift on Fedora 11.

1. Get Thrift from official site
   1. wget -O thrift.tgz "http://gitweb.thrift-rpc.org/?p=thrift.git;a=snapshot;h=HEAD;sf=tgz"
   2. tar -xzf thrift.tgz
   3. mv thrift "thrift-snapshot-head-$(date +%Y%m%d)"
   4. cd "thrift-snapshot-head-$(date +%Y%m%d)"

2. Install packages depending
   
   1. yum -y install autoconf automake sysconftool boost boost-devel libtool perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker
3. Compile and Install
   
   1. ./bootstrap.sh
   2. ./configure \
   3.   --prefix="/usr/local/thrift-snapshot-head"
   4. make && make install