Compiling procmail-3.11pre4 Under Linux

Hello All,

I have been running procmail v3.10 for year now and then decided
to upgrade to procmail/smartlist-3.11pre4 recently. It does not 
compile out of the box under Linux 1.2.13/Slackware 2.3/gcc2.6.3/
libc 4.6.27. 

In particular, the compile keeps breaking at this point:

        Added LDFLAGS= -lm -lc
        make: *** [Makefile] Error 127

Then I remove the "-lm -lc" from the LDFLAGS (I don't know why
it insists on adding it for Linux platform) and recompile and
the compile breaks again in the same place. This time, I type
"make" and the compile moves forward past where it broke and
breaks again as follows:

        echo Housekeeping file >config.check
        mkdir new 2>/dev/null; exit 0
        make: *** [config.check] Error 127

Is there something I'm missing here? 

Incidentally, I just compiled and installed the same 
procmail/smartlist on a Solaris machine and it worked 
flawlessly.

Thanks for your help.

/basie