Problem building / installing documentation on Debian 10

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Trying to compile and install v1.7.2 on Debian 10 I encountered problems with the documentation which I could not quickly solve.

I had troubles with make install, which complained that files could not be found when trying to install some *.txt
when trying to reproduce the errors I got to report this issue I am now getting the following error already by make, compiling in a dedicated directory (after running ../configure from the parent):

touch doc/build.stamp
touch: cannot touch 'doc/build.stamp': No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [Makefile:2156: doc/build.stamp] Error 1

In the dedicated folder there is no directory "doc", maybe a missing subdir directive?

when compiling in the distribution folder directly, I get the original error by make install:

/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./doc/text/index.txt ./doc/text/fields.txt ./doc/text/install.txt ./doc/text/commandline.txt ./doc/text/CHANGELOG.txt ./doc/text/README.txt 'PREFIX/share/doc/sina'
/usr/bin/install: cannot stat './doc/text/index.txt': No such file or directory
/usr/bin/install: cannot stat './doc/text/fields.txt': No such file or directory
/usr/bin/install: cannot stat './doc/text/install.txt': No such file or directory
/usr/bin/install: cannot stat './doc/text/commandline.txt': No such file or directory
/usr/bin/install: cannot stat './doc/text/CHANGELOG.txt': No such file or directory
/usr/bin/install: cannot stat './doc/text/README.txt': No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [Makefile:1371: install-docDATA] Error 1