Your advice worked. And unlike a try some time ago the dragon flew. The situation of a little while ago happened because the documentation unpacked itself into the bigforth directory - making another bigforth subdirectory.

Bernd Paysan wrote:
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.



---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Reply via email to