gzip fails to build from sources on Debian GNU/Linux

[Stefano Lattarini]

I'm encountering this failure on Debian GNU/Linux unstable:

$ ./boostrap && ./configure
... [all is well]
$ make
...
Making all in .
make[2]: Entering directory `/devel/bleeding/src/gzip'
  CC     version.o
  AR     libver.a
  CC     bits.o
  CC     deflate.o
  CC     gzip.o
  CC     inflate.o
  CC     lzw.o
  CC     trees.o
  CC     unlzh.o
  CC     unlzw.o
  CC     unpack.o
  CC     unzip.o
  CC     util.o
  CC     zip.o
  CCLD   gzip
lib/libgzip.a(match.o): In function `mismatch':
/usr/local/bleeding/src/gzip/lib/match_.s:82: undefined reference to 
`nice_match'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
Makefile:1208: recipe for target `gzip' failed
make[2]: *** [gzip] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/devel/bleeding/src/gzip'
Makefile:1326: recipe for target `all-recursive' failed
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/devel/bleeding/src/gzip'
Makefile:1125: recipe for target `all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2

Attached is gzip's config.log.  Let me know if you need more information.

Regards,
  Stefano

config.log.gz
Description: GNU Zip compressed data