Root Makefile errors

[Pysis]

Expected behavior

Make success messages.
Directory created.
Any supporting blocks compiled.

Actual behavior

Make error message.
Directory not created.
Any supporting blocks not compiled?

i3blocks config relevant to blocklet(s)

N/A

Output of blocklet(s) when run from command line

N/A

Output of any relevant other commands that might help diagnostics

> make --debug --trace
GNU Make 4.3
Built for x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu
Copyright (C) 1988-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Reading makefiles...
Updating makefiles....
Makefile:20: target 'Makefile' does not exist
install -m755 Makefile $HOME/.local/libexec/i3blocks
install: cannot create regular file '$HOME/.local/libexec/i3blocks': No such file or directory
make: *** [Makefile:20: Makefile] Error 1

> find "$HOME/.local" -maxdepth 1 -iname 'libexec*'

> neofetch
OS: Fedora release 37 (Thirty Seven) x86_64
Kernel: 6.0.8-300.fc37.x86_64
Shell: fish 3.5.1
WM: i3
Terminal: gnome-terminal

Tried getting better target trace information, but not seeing much.
Should be all, build, $(_MAKEBLOCKS), the make commands, but seems to go straight to _BLOCKS. Even clean breaks the same way.