That's exactly what I thought until I ran make -d, that is make with the debug switch. From this it became obvious that it's looking at the accent as a filename. At least that's how I read that output. Once again, this is the accent character to the left of the number one on the qwerty -- '`' that one. Here's the output of make -d. Notice, especially, the third line, just to the left of "stop," and also the second line. So, I think there's something strange in my setup, but it's default RH9. And, nothing else has choked and I've done quite a few compiles. Finished prerequisites of target file `. Must remake target `. make[1]: *** No rule to make target `. Stop. make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/dosemu-1.1.4/src' Putting child 0x08076818 (default) PID 15378 on the chain. Live child 0x08076818 (default) PID 15378 /bin/bash: line 1: 55]/usr/local/src/dosemu-1.1.4/src/arch/linux/Makefile.main: No such file or directory Got a SIGCHLD; 1 unreaped children. Reaping losing child 0x08076818 PID 15378 make: *** [default] Error 127 Removing child 0x08076818 PID 15378 from chain. [root at toccata Adam Myrow writes: > From: Adam Myrow <amyrow at midsouth.rr.com> > > It sounds like either you have a missing file somewhere or there is a typo > in the make file. It's odd that the "no such file or directory" message > doesn't say the file it is looking for. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175