Makefile fails immediately

[donpdonp]

is there something that needs to be done before running make?

donp@jewel code $ git clone https://github.com/mlemerre/l-lang
Cloning into 'l-lang'...
remote: Counting objects: 2486, done.
remote: Total 2486 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 2486
Receiving objects: 100% (2486/2486), 2.20 MiB | 332.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (1470/1470), done.
Checking connectivity... done.
donp@jewel code $ cd l-lang 
donp@jewel l-lang $ make
omake
*** omake: reading OMakefiles
*** omake error:
   File OMakefile: line 90, characters 1-47
   directory does not exist: /home/donp/code/l-lang/build/next
Makefile:5: recipe for target 'omake' failed
make: *** [omake] Error 123
donp@jewel l-lang $ 

[ceving]

Same problem here.