Checkinstall 1.5.3 and Fedora Core 1

[Tim Wunder]

Anybody using checkinstall on Fedora Core 1? For some reason it won't 
work for me, just exits with an "Installation failed" error:
<quote error message>
$ sudo checkinstall -R

checkinstall 1.5.3, Copyright 2001 Felipe Eduardo Sanchez Diaz Duran
            This software is released under the GNU GPL.

Installing with "make install"...

========================= Installation results ===========================

Copying documentation directory...

****  Installation failed. Aborting package creation.

Restoring overwritten files from backup...OK

Cleaning up...OK

Bye.
</quote>

It seemed to work OK for installing checkinstall itself, but when I try 
to install gnucash from CVS, it fails with the error above. A standard 
"make install" for gnucash works fine.
I've removed checkinstall with 'rpm -e checkinstall' and reinstalled it 
from scratch (untarring the tarball, executing 'make install' and then 
'checkinstall') without change in behavior.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Tim