To answer my own question (for anyone with the same question): Fink (Google for it) will download and install a version of SDL that works. From there, my build went fine, though I'd like to know how to build a static version that I can drop on top of the old version I downloaded. The only references …

OK, what it really can't find is sdl-config, which I agree is not on my system. I used the SDL from SDL-1.2.11.dmg, downloaded from the SDL site. It looks from one of the files there that actually compiling SDL from scratch is a major pain. Is there a work-around? Is there a way to get this file? If …

Is there any chance an updated build for OSX can be released? Or does someone have one they're willing to share? I'd like to think I'm reasonably competent with computers, compiling, etc., but ./configure can't find SDL, which definitely is on my system, and I don't know where to start poking around …