Building 1.6.5.4 From Source

I'm attempting to get a distribution build of 1.6.5.4. to work on gentoo. So far I'm able to build it successfully and start the server and everything looks fine.

The source distribution uses git describe which fails since the tar balls are not actually git repos, i have fixed this on my by replacing the git describe command with an echo command

1. When I run 'make dist' anything under the ns_server module isn't included in the distribution file?
2. The start.sh scripts are missing from the distribution presumably due to the above issue

Hash anyone successfully built membase for other distros?