Surely, the following output is from configure, not make?
/bin/sh ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating sigc++-2.0.pc
config.status: creating sigc++/Makefile
config.status: creating scripts/Makefile
config.status: creating tests/Makefile
config.status: creating examples/Makefile
config.status: creating MSVC_Net2003/Makefile
config.status: creating libsigc++-2.0.spec
config.status: creating docs/Makefile
config.status: creating docs/images/Makefile
config.status: creating docs/reference/Makefile
config.status: creating docs/reference/Doxyfile
config.status: creating sigc++config.h
config.status: sigc++config.h is unchanged
config.status: executing depfiles commands
/bin/sh ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating sigc++-2.0.pc
config.status: creating sigc++/Makefile
What platform (linux distribution, for instance), is this?