Comment 3 for bug 435898

You are using an outdated version of gmake that has bugs that completely
prevent compilation.

If you like to use gmake instead of smake, you need to use at least gmake-3.81

Older gmake versions completely ignore some make rules and this is what happened
for you.

BTW: the "problem" you mention is a social problem that was initiated by a hostile
packaging maintainer from Debian who attacked the project, see:

http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/linux-dist.html

for more information The OSS community unfortunately does not yet have a method
to deal with hostile downstreams.

If you like to get Ubuntu packages for the legal and working original software
instead of the buggy and undistributable fork, you would need to contact Ubuntu
and ask Ubuntu for fixing it's fault.

I cannot understand why Ubuntu still distributes the unmaintained fork...