Alrighty, that took it a bit farther. Yet another error comes up though, and I've ensured to get all the dev packages for libpcre.
pastebin rocks....
http://pastebin.com/m45bb22e9
I want to thank you guys for helping me out on this. Words cannot express how much I love IVAN...and after this compiles successfully, I'm going to play the heck out of it!
Just for confirmation, this is the line I altered in my Makefile:
SDL_LIBS = -L/usr/lib -lSDL -lSDL_mixer -lpcre
which I altered from
SDL_LIBS = -L/usr/lib -lSDL