I have only previously tried building the latest stable release (0.2.4) from source on my MIPSEL-based Linkstation 2 which worked fine. I have just tried to build 1655 from source. Configure and make-install work fine, and the binary runs. I can see the web interface when the mt-daapd daemon is up and running, my music directory is scanned and the database is created OK.
However, when I try and load the configuration page on the web interface, I get a 404 not found error, and the mt-daapd instance crashes and quits. I can reload the daemon, but it crashes each time. It also crashes and quits if I try to make a connection to the DAAP server using e.g. Itunes or rhythmbox.
I have now rolled back to 1586, which runs and functions fine.