I have these compilation issues in ubuntu linux:
hbn@xu14-cc-burn:~/opt/HoboNickels-1.5.3.0$ qmake
Project MESSAGE: Building with UPNP support
Project MESSAGE: Building with DBUS (Freedesktop notifications) support
Project MESSAGE: Building with LevelDB
Warning: ignoring element
Warning: ignoring element
Warning: ignoring element
hbn@xu14-cc-burn:~/opt/HoboNickels-1.5.3.0$ make
cd /home/hbn/opt/HoboNickels-1.5.3.0/src/leveldb && CC=gcc CXX=g++ make OPT="-m64 -pipe -fstack-protector-all --param ssp-buffer-size=1 -O2" libleveldb.a libmemenv.a
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/hbn/opt/HoboNickels-1.5.3.0/src/leveldb'
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `libleveldb.a'. Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/hbn/opt/HoboNickels-1.5.3.0/src/leveldb'
make: *** [/home/hbn/opt/HoboNickels-1.5.3.0/src/leveldb/libleveldb.a] Error 2
hbn@xu14-cc-burn:~/opt/HoboNickels-1.5.3.0$
They are the same in version 1.5.3 and 1.5.5, and they are the same in ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS and 16.04.2 LTS.