strange make error when cross-compiling C code with DS-5 EDS on Ubuntu 12.04

Well, I'm not sure if this is the best solution, but commenting out line 14 of ~/altera/13.1/embedded/ds-5/bin/arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc (the line that calls the offending script) solved the issue:

                                                                                                                                          
# ! /bin/sh                                                                                                                                                                                
#  Copyright (C) 2013 ARM Ltd. All rights reserved.                                                                                                                                        
case "$0" in
  /*) full=$0;;
  *) full=`pwd`"/$0";;
esac
full_dir=`dirname "${full}"`
SUITE_INSTALL_DIR=`cd "${full_dir}"/..; pwd`
#  POSIX sh does not set positional parameters when using .                                                                                                                                
set -- "${SUITE_INSTALL_DIR}" "$@"
. "${SUITE_INSTALL_DIR}/sw/ARM_DS-5/env.sh"
if ; then
  set -- "$HOME/.arm/ARM_DS-5/env.ini" "$@"
 # . "${SUITE_INSTALL_DIR}/sw/ARM_DS-5/userenv.sh"#  This line was causing compilation errors, and commenting it out solves the issue...                      
  shift
fi
shift
exec "${SUITE_INSTALL_DIR}/sw/gcc/bin/arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc" "$@"