> > bft.h? or bfd?
> > 
> > what system are you running on?
> 
> fat_string.c:17:17: bfd.h: No such file or directory
> fat_string.c:18:21: bfdlink.h: No such file or directory
> fat_string.c:229: error: parse error before "bfd_combined_table_update"
> fat_string.c:229: error: parse error before "PTR"
> 
> uname -a
> Linux rose 2.4.25-1-386 #2 Wed Apr 14 19:38:08 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
> It's Debian Sarge.

I'd have expected GCL to build on Debian with no problem since
that's Cammm's development environment.

try this:

make clean
edit lsp/Makefile.pamphlet
find the ./configure line and change the options to:

--enable-vssize=65536*2 --enable-locbfd --disable-dynsysbfd 
--disable-statsysbfd --enable-maxpage=128*1024

and see if that cures it.