latest tip

I am trying to compile and run the latest tip, I get so far as running 
it, and i get nothing so far, I have narrowed it down, it stops in 
wmii.sh at the line
echo Start $scriptname 2> /dev/null | wmiir write /event ||  exit 1

because it says /event does not exist
is there something i need to do? I compiled and installed the latest tip 
of libixp as well
Thanks
  Alex