HELP for ORBit 0.5.17 on Irix : make and gmake failed!

[VERGELY Isabelle (Intérimaire) <VERGELY dsvsud cea fr>]

Hello,

Installation of ORBit 0.5.17 on my SGI workstation (IRIX 64 release 6.5)
failed!

After installation of the required glib (1.2.8) and gettext (0.12)
freewares, I used the standard
procedure:
./configure : step completed
then
make or gmake : step stopped because of a problem concerning make or gmake
on popt/intl/

The message obtained with make was:
--------------------------------------------------------
        make  all-recursive
Making all in popt
        cd . \
          && CONFIG_FILES= CONFIG_HEADERS=config.h \
             /bin/sh ./config.status
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: config.h is unchanged
        make  all-recursive
Making all in intl
make: file `Makefile' line 208: bad character & (octal 46)
*** Error code 1 (bu21)
*** Error code 1 (bu21)
*** Error code 1 (bu21)
*** Error code 1 (bu21)

And, of course, no "&" is found on line 208 of the file popt/intl/Makefile
which is :
"@GT_YES@	  $(SHELL) ./config.status"


The message obtained with gmake was:
---------------------------------------------------------
gmake  all-recursive
gmake[1]: Entering directory `..../ORBit-0.5.17'
Making all in popt
gmake[2]: Entering directory `..../ORBit-0.5.17/popt'
gmake  all-recursive
gmake[3]: Entering directory `..../ORBit-0.5.17/popt'
Making all in intl
gmake[4]: Entering directory `..../ORBit-0.5.17/popt/intl'
gmake[4]: *** No rule to make target `libintl.@l@a', needed by `all-yes'.
Stop.
gmake[4]: Leaving directory `..../ORBIT_0.5.17/ORBit-0.5.17/popt/intl'
gmake[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
gmake[3]: Leaving directory `..../ORBit-0.5.17/popt'
gmake[2]: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
gmake[2]: Leaving directory `..../ORBit-0.5.17/popt'
gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `..../ORBit-0.5.17'
gmake: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2

But, the libintl.la library is in /usr//local/lib/ directory (well defined
in my LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable).

Thanks for any help! 

Isabelle Vergely

CEA VALRHO
Direction des Sciences du Vivant
Departement D'Ingenierie et D'Etudes des Proteines
Service de Biochimie post-genomique et Toxicologie Nucleaire
BP 17171
F-30207 BAGNOLS-SUR-CEZE Cedex