[Asterisk-Users] What failed here?

[John Chambers]

After doing "cvs checkout -r v1-0_stable asterisk" and typing the
usual "make clean ; make install", I got these messages:

...
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/asterisk/codecs'
make -C gsm lib/libgsm.a
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/asterisk/codecs/gsm'
/var/spool/asterisk   -o src/k6opt.o src/k6opt.s
make[2]: execvp: /var/spool/asterisk: Permission denied
make[2]: *** [src/k6opt.o] Error 127
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/asterisk/codecs/gsm'
make[1]: *** [gsm/lib/libgsm.a] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/asterisk/codecs'
make: *** [subdirs] Error 1
#

It looks like something has gone badly wrong here, but I can't make any sense
out   of  it.   I  dug  around  looking  for  'k6opt*',  and  found  them  in
codecs/gsm/src, and presumably that's what it was trying to compile, but this
isn't much of a clue.  There's no libgsm.a in any directory. From the look of
the line starting with "/var/spool/asterisk", I'd guess that  some  macro  in
some makefile has come up undefined, but that's not much info, either.

Any idea what it might be trying to tell me?