Building Python 2.7.2 fails with “No rule to make target ‘Parser/printgrammar.o’”

I am trying to build Python 2.7开发者_JAVA百科.2 (the latest 2.x release) on Scientific Linux 5.5, which is a derivative of Red Hat Linux. I ran

./configure --prefix=$HOME && make

and the configure script ran fine, but once make starts I get

make: *** No rule to make target `Parser/printgrammar.o', needed by `Parser/pgen'.  Stop.

Any idea what might be causing this?

According to @Ashish Ararwal, “Make sure you didn’t accidentally turn off builtin rules, for example with the -r option to make.”