I try to build emacs-23.1 from source. First : ./configure Then i try to make But get error at the start: $ make cd lib-src; make all \ CC='gcc' CFLAGS='-g -O2 -Wno-pointer-sign ' CPPFLAGS='-D_BSD_SOURCE ' \ LDFLAGS='-Wl,-znocombreloc ' MAKE='make' make[1]: Entering directory `/home/emacs-23.1/lib-src' Makefile:144: *** commands commence before first target. Stop. make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/emacs-23.1/lib-src' make: *** [lib-src] Error 2 How can i fix it? I try many emacs versions and every time i get this error. Thank you.