to give a context for where this error is popping up i'm showing the last several successful checkpoints as well. Making all in classpath make[8]: Entering directory `/home/molepi/Downloads/gnu-cc-obj/x86_64-unknown- linux-gnu/32/libjava/classpath/native/jni/classpath' make[8]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[8]: Leaving directory `/home/molepi/Downloads/gnu-cc-obj/x86_64-unknown- linux-gnu/32/libjava/classpath/native/jni/classpath' make[8]: Entering directory `/home/molepi/Downloads/gnu-cc-obj/x86_64-unknown- linux-gnu/32/libjava/classpath/native/jni' /bin/sh ../../scripts/check_jni_methods.sh make[8]: Leaving directory `/home/molepi/Downloads/gnu-cc-obj/x86_64-unknown- linux-gnu/32/libjava/classpath/native/jni' make[7]: Leaving directory `/home/molepi/Downloads/gnu-cc-obj/x86_64-unknown- linux-gnu/32/libjava/classpath/native/jni' make[7]: Entering directory `/home/molepi/Downloads/gnu-cc-obj/x86_64-unknown- linux-gnu/32/libjava/classpath/native' make[7]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'. make[7]: Leaving directory `/home/molepi/Downloads/gnu-cc-obj/x86_64-unknown- linux-gnu/32/libjava/classpath/native' make[6]: Leaving directory `/home/molepi/Downloads/gnu-cc-obj/x86_64-unknown- linux-gnu/32/libjava/classpath/native' Making all in resource make[6]: Entering directory `/home/molepi/Downloads/gnu-cc-obj/x86_64-unknown- linux-gnu/32/libjava/classpath/resource' make[6]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[6]: Leaving directory `/home/molepi/Downloads/gnu-cc-obj/x86_64-unknown- linux-gnu/32/libjava/classpath/resource' Making all in scripts make[6]: Entering directory `/home/molepi/Downloads/gnu-cc-obj/x86_64-unknown- linux-gnu/32/libjava/classpath/scripts' make[6]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[6]: Leaving directory `/home/molepi/Downloads/gnu-cc-obj/x86_64-unknown- linux-gnu/32/libjava/classpath/scripts' Making all in tools make[6]: Entering directory `/home/molepi/Downloads/gnu-cc-obj/x86_64-unknown- linux-gnu/32/libjava/classpath/tools' make all-am make[7]: Entering directory `/home/molepi/Downloads/gnu-cc-obj/x86_64-unknown- linux-gnu/32/libjava/classpath/tools' make[7]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'. make[7]: Leaving directory `/home/molepi/Downloads/gnu-cc-obj/x86_64-unknown- linux-gnu/32/libjava/classpath/tools' make[6]: Leaving directory `/home/molepi/Downloads/gnu-cc-obj/x86_64-unknown- linux-gnu/32/libjava/classpath/tools' make[6]: Entering directory `/home/molepi/Downloads/gnu-cc-obj/x86_64-unknown- linux-gnu/32/libjava/classpath' true DO=all multi-do # make make[6]: Leaving directory `/home/molepi/Downloads/gnu-cc-obj/x86_64-unknown- linux-gnu/32/libjava/classpath' make[5]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[5]: Leaving directory `/home/molepi/Downloads/gnu-cc-obj/x86_64-unknown- linux-gnu/32/libjava/classpath' make[4]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/molepi/Downloads/gnu-cc-obj/x86_64-unknown- linux-gnu/32/libjava' make[3]: *** [multi-do] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/molepi/Downloads/gnu-cc-obj/x86_64-unknown- linux-gnu/libjava' make[2]: *** [all-multi] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/molepi/Downloads/gnu-cc-obj/x86_64-unknown- linux-gnu/libjava' make[1]: *** [all-target-libjava] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/molepi/Downloads/gnu-cc-obj' make: *** [all] Error 2