jail on 5.4

[dave]

Hello,
    Trying to set up a jail on 5.4-RELEASE. I've installed the 5_4_0_RELEASE
source from cvsup and have successfully run:
make buildworld DESTDIR=/usr/local/jails/jail1
this runs successfully but when i do:
cd /usr/src/etc
make distribution DESTDIR=/usr/local/jails/jail1
the process proceeds for a moment installing then it exits on the
master.passwd file, error code 64, install complains about the wrong number
of arguments. I've tried cvsupping to 5.stable, same results. Any
suggestions welcome.
Thanks.
Dave.