NSS Install/Use on Linux

I am trying to get setup to produce signed JAR files on a linux box. 
This is for an internally developed and used application.  I have looked 
over the section in 'Creating Applications with Mozilla' and stuff I 
found here: http://certs.mozdev.org/cadraft.html

I have tried this several different ways but with no success.  I am 
using the binary linux distribution found here:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/security/nss/releases/
     NSS_3_9_RTM/Linux2.4_x86_glibc_PTH_OPT.OBJ/nss-3.9.tar.gz

On a Fedora Core 1 box I did this:
First I Installed the tar file to /usr/share:
	/usr/share/nss-3.9/(bin/lib/include)

----
# Setup the root CA
# to be done as the admin of the CA
NSS=/usr/share/nss-3.9
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$NSS/lib
CADB=/home/arcamax/config/nss-ca
CU="$NSS/bin/certutil -d $CADB -f $CADB/capass"
mkdir -p  $CADB
chmod 700 $CADB
/home/arcamax/bin/mkpass > $CADB/capass
chmod 400 $CADB/capass

# Creating the CA database
$CU -N

# Creating the root CA certificate
$CU -S -s "CN=arcamax.com nss root CA, O=arcamax.com" -n "amirootca" -t 
",,C" -v 120 -x -1 -2 -5
   0 - Digital Signature ...
   Other to finish
5
   0 - Digital Signature ...
   Other to finish
9
Is this a critical extension [y/n]?
y
Is this a CA certificate [y/n]?
y
Enter the path length constraint, enter to skip [<0 for unlimited path]:
3
Is this a critical extension [y/n]?
y
   0 - SSL Client ...
   Other to finish
7
   0 - SSL Client ...
   Other to finish
9
   Is this a critical extension [y/n]?
y

# extract the root CA cert file
$CU -L -n "amirootca" -a -o /home/arcamax/config/amirootca.cacert
chmod 644 /home/arcamax/config/amirootca.cacert
----

----
# Setup a Users Signing Database and Generate a CSR
# This must be done as the individual user.
# The csr.txt file will be created in the current directory.
NSS=/usr/share/nss-3.9
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$NSS/lib
SIGNDB=$HOME/nss-sign
CU="$NSS/bin/certutil -d $SIGNDB -f $SIGNDB/signpass"
mkdir -p  $SIGNDB
chmod 700 $SIGNDB
/home/arcamax/bin/mkpass > $SIGNDB/signpass
chmod 400 $SIGNDB/signpass

# Create the signing database
$CU -N

# Add the root CA .cacert to the signing db
$CU -A -n "amirootca" -t ",,C" -i /home/arcamax/config/amirootca.cacert

# Generate the CSR
$CU -R -o csr.txt -a -s "CN=$USER oject signing cert, O=arcamax.com" -v 100
----

----
# Issuing a Signing Certificate from a CSR
# to be done as the admin of the CA
# The csr.txt must be in the current directory.
# A resulting cert.txt file will be created.
NSS=/usr/share/nss-3.9
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$NSS/lib
CADB=/home/arcamax/config/nss-ca
CU="$NSS/bin/certutil -d $CADB -f $CADB/capass"
$CU -C -c "arcamax.com" -i csr.txt -a -o cert.txt -1 -2 -5
----

This is where is dies.  Top shows 95% CPU usage.  I let it run for about 
10 minutes on an otherwise idle 466Mhz Celeron with 512MB Ram.  I 
finally did control C to kill it.

I also tried the proceedure on a RedHat 7.3 box.  There it seg faults 
immediatly at the same point in the proceedure.  In both cases a zero 
length cert.txt file has been created.

I also attempted to compile from source on the RedHat 7.3 box.  I did 
not find instructions on how to do this.  I found this page:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/buildnss_31.html
but it did not work when tried to translate the version numbers to 3.9.

I tried to download and compile the source tar ball.  Again I did not 
find much in the way of an install proceedure.  I muddled through 
running ./configure where it seemed to be needed and the 'make'.  I 
finally got to this error:
gcc -o Linux2.4_x86_glibc_PTH_DBG.OBJ/quickder.o -c -g -fPIC -DLINUX1_2 
-Di386 -D_XOPEN_SOURCE -DLINUX2_1 -ansi -Wall -pipe -DLINUX -Dlinux 
-D_POSIX_SOURCE -D_BSD_SOURCE -DHAVE_STRERROR -DXP_UNIX -DDEBUG -UNDEBUG 
-DDEBUG_bryan -D_REENTRANT 
-I../../../../dist/Linux2.4_x86_glibc_PTH_DBG.OBJ/include 
-I../../../../dist/public/nss -I../../../../dist/private/nss 
-I../../../../dist/public/dbm  quickder.c
In file included from quickder.c:40:
secasn1.h:45:21: plarena.h: No such file or directory

A Find shows this:
[bryan <at> pg2 nss-3.9]$ find . -name plarena.h
./mozilla/nsprpub/lib/ds/plarena.h
./mozilla/nsprpub/dist/include/nspr/plarena.h

At this point I am stumped.

BTW: As I work on this I am developing a document of what needs to be 
done.  I can make this available if there is interest.