usually, people run configure and make as "ordinary" user, and afterwards run sudo make install. Then the files for NGCards that get installed without the patch are owned by the user who ran the make command.
Its better to rely on the variables the gnustep makefile framework provides for directory creation and installing.
Further, with the cp -dpR TimeZones ... statement, there is a problem on OpenBSD, since it doesn't know about the -d flag of cp.
I exchanged the cp -dpr in that line with a cp -R. Linux doesn't seem to distinguish between -R and -r, man cp on Linux says:
-R, -r, --recursive
copy directories recursively

However, -R and -r are different things on OpenBSD:
-R If source designates a directory, cp copies the directory and the
entire subtree connected at that point. Created directories have
the same mode as the corresponding source directory, unmodified
by the process's umask.

         This option also causes symbolic links to be copied, rather than
         followed, and special files to be created, rather than being
         copied as normal files.  However, cp copies hard linked files as
         separate files.  To preserve hard links, use a utility such as
         pax(1) or tar(1) instead.

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Historic versions of the cp utility had a -r option. This implementation
supports that option; however, its use is strongly discouraged, as it
does not correctly copy special files, symbolic links or FIFOs.