Making asterisk 1.6 causes undefined ref to option_verbose

I have a problem making asterisk 1.6 on a clean new Centos 5.2 system
Am I missing something?
The output is:

[root@asterisk1 asterisk-1.6.0.1]# make
CC=“cc” CXX=“g++” LD="" AR="" RANLIB="" CFLAGS="" make -C menuselect CONFIGURE_SILENT="–silent" makeopts
make[1]: Entering directory /usr/src/asterisk-1.6.0.1/menuselect' make[1]:makeopts’ is up to date.
make[1]: Leaving directory /usr/src/asterisk-1.6.0.1/menuselect' menuselect/menuselect --check-deps menuselect.makeopts Generating embedded module rules ... [LD] abstract_jb.o acl.o adsistub.o aescrypt.o aeskey.o aestab.o alaw.o app.o ast_expr2.o ast_expr2f.o asterisk.o astmm.o astobj2.o audiohook.o autoservice.o callerid.o cdr.o channel.o chanvars.o cli.o config.o cryptostub.o db.o devicestate.o dial.o dns.o dnsmgr.o dsp.o enum.o event.o features.o file.o fixedjitterbu f.o frame.o fskmodem.o global_datastores.o hashtab.o http.o image.o indications.o io.o jitterbuf.o loader.o logger.o manager.o md5.o netsock.o pbx.o plc.o priva cy.o rtp.o say.o sched.o sha1.o slinfactory.o srv.o stdtime/localtime.o strcompat.o tcptls.o tdd.o term.o threadstorage.o translate.o udptl.o ulaw.o utils.o ver sion.o editline/libedit.a db1-ast/libdb1.a -> asterisk /usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.1.2/../../../crt1.o: In function_start’:
(.text+0x18): undefined reference to main' abstract_jb.o: In functionast_jb_destroy’:
/usr/src/asterisk-1.6.0.1/main/abstract_jb.c:549: undefined reference to `option_verbose’