On Saturday 21 December 2002 21:15, Elliott Chapin wrote:
> I just tried to set up BigForth on my Mandrake 9.0: typed "make install"
>    from the bigforth subdirectory, namely /root/biforth and got
> .
> .
>
> gcc -g -O2 -Wall -DDATE='"'"$(date '+%d%b%Y' | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]')"'"'
> -DINSTDIR='"'"/usr/local/lib/bigforth"'"' bigforth.o linker.o -ldl  -o
> bigforth
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot open output file bigforth: Is a directory
                                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make: *** [bigforth] Error 1
>
> Perhaps I have to edit the makefile, or ...

Why is there a bigforth directory within your source tree? Did you unpack the 
archive twice? Try getting rid of that directory, then it should work.

-- 
Bernd Paysan
"If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself"
http://www.jwdt.com/~paysan/


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