[Asterisk-Users] What failed here?

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Could you have asterisk running and not allowing you to overwrite while 
trying to install?  Do you have root rights to create files in the 
asterisk folders?

John Chambers wrote:

>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?
>
>
>
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