From what I remember of working with Pike, the best part was probably the included image module. Maybe I will install Pike again just to see if I still like it.
But ./configure && gmake && gmake install seemed to work, or at least it runs and nothing weird has happened so far.
http://pike.lysator.liu.se/development/pikefarm/8.0.xml
http://pike.lysator.liu.se/development/pikefarm/9.0.xml
if you dig through you'll find 3 or 4 failed tests out of thousands.