Problem building click from current git sources

Hello!

After cloning the git repo:

git clone git://read.cs.ucla.edu/git/click

I run:

./configure
make

and get stuck in the following loop:

config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: executing default-1 commands
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/ubuntu/click/userlevel'
  FINDELEMENTS elements.conf
  CREATE elements.mk
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ubuntu/click/userlevel'
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/ubuntu/click/userlevel'
  FINDELEMENTS elements.conf
  CREATE elements.mk
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ubuntu/click/userlevel'
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/ubuntu/click/userlevel'
  FINDELEMENTS elements.conf
  CREATE elements.mk
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ubuntu/click/userlevel'
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/ubuntu/click/userlevel'
  FINDELEMENTS elements.conf
  CREATE elements.mk
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ubuntu/click/userlevel'
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/ubuntu/click/userlevel'
....

Any thoughts on why this would be happening? This is on a stock
installation of Ubuntu Server 11.10; pretty much the only thing I ran
on this machine before trying to build click was "apt-get install git
build-essential".

For what it's worth, if I initially run make as root, then re-run it
as non-root, elements.mk fails to build (due to permissions) and the
rest of the build seems to proceed normally. Also, rolling back to
commit c95065dc173af754774254e1356cc83acd20c94d doesn't seem to have
this problem.

Shaddi