make: *** No rule to make target
`../src/src/Makefile.in', needed by `Makefile'. Stop.
This is very strange - there is no way it should be looking
for anything
in ../src/src, so clearly there is some wrinkle in the
makefile stuff
that can go a little daft. Please, _somebody_ out there is surely knowledgable about this stuff; please help clean it up!
Like I said, building with a copy of the source ("diff -r oldsrc copiedsrc" verifies that they are the same) doesn't have the same problem. I also manually compared all of the file permissions in the two directories. I have no idea what the difference could possibly be.
Translating make's error message into a more plain "I am missing the file `../src/src/Makefile.in' and don't know how to create it myself" I would guess that "../src/src/" should probably be "../src/" - so it all looks like a problem with your base directory.
Cheers, - Andreas