I'm on Fedora Core 3, GNU Make 3.80. Did a subversion checkout, and during make install, I get the following:
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cp: cannot stat `./data/iconsets/transports/yahoo/not': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `in': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `the': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `roster.png': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `./data/iconsets/transports/gadugadu/not': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `in': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `the': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `roster.png': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `./data/iconsets/transports/aim/not': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `in': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `the': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `roster.png': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `./data/iconsets/transports/msn/not': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `in': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `the': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `roster.png': No such file or directory
[...]
Quoting problem, maybe?