Description of problem: SHARE_DIR is setup to /usr/local/share by default instead of /usr/share. The default path to the sound is $pkgdatadir, where $pkgdatadir is $datadir/centericq, and $datadir = $prefix/share. But prefix is /usr/local by default in autotools. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 4.21.0-8 P.S. I don't know details but I think more good to call %configure instead of ./configure.
And more big problem is the absense of translations due to the same thing of the LOCALEDIR constant.