gcl make fails: "No rule to make target ../mp/libmport.a, needed by raw_gcl.

Hopefully someone on this mailing list can help me with my newbie problem.

I get the error below when running make on the most recent version of gcl out of cvs repository.  I get the same error for gcl 2.4.  I am running RH 7.2 (kernel 2.4.7-10) and have tried gcc 2.95-4 and 3.0.2.  Both gave the same error: 

make[1]: Entering directory `/download/gcl/unixport'
cc -c  -I../h   -c -o ../mp/mpi.o ../mp/mpi.c
cc -c  -I../h   -c -o ../mp/mp2.o ../mp/mp2.c
make[1]: *** No rule tomake target `../mp/libmport.a', needed by `raw_gcl'.  Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/download/gcl/unixport'
make: *** [all] Error 2

A seemingly identical error was posted on this mailing list in July of 2001, and the proposed solution was to use the most recent version out of cvs (http://www.ma.utexas.edu/pipermail/maxima/2001/000197.html).  Unfortunatelly, this solution does not seem to work for me.

As a workaournd solution, does anyone know where I could download a precompiled gcl 2.4?  I looked for it on the rpmfind.net, but the most recent version of gcl on it was 2.2. 

Thanks for your help.

Goran