Problems building Orbit-0.5.12

[geoffrey <geoffrey ticom com>]

Hi,
	I'm trying to update the version of evolution on my SuSE 7.3 box
and am having a terrible time of it. I have discovered that I need to
update several packages. Specifically I must update: bonobo, bonobo-conf,
Orbit, gal, gtkhtml, and evolution. So, I first try doing Orbit because of
dependency issues; I used the old .spec file for the installed version
(0.5.8) and updated things to reflect the current version I want to
install (0.5.12). However, when I do "rpm -ba orbit.spec" it bombs out
with this error message. Can anyone help me sort out and solve the
problem?

mv -f .libs/util.lo util.lo
/bin/sh ./libtool --mode=link gcc  -O2 -mcpu=i486 -fno-strength-reduce  -o 
libIDL.la -rpath /usr/lib -version-info 4:4:4                                 
-release 0.6 parser.lo lexer.lo ns.lo util.lo  -L/usr/lib -lglib
rm -fr .libs/libIDL.la .libs/libIDL.* .libs/libIDL-0.6.*

*** Warning: inter-library dependencies are not known to be supported.
*** All declared inter-library dependencies are being dropped.
*** The inter-library dependencies that have been dropped here will be
*** automatically added whenever a program is linked with this library
*** or is declared to -dlopen it.
gcc -shared  parser.lo lexer.lo ns.lo util.lo   -Wl,-soname -Wl, -o .libs/
/usr/i486-suse-linux/bin/ld: cannot open output file .libs/: Is a 
directory
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [libIDL.la] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/packages/BUILD/ORBit-0.5.12/libIDL'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/packages/BUILD/ORBit-0.5.12'
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.96851 (%build)

So, where do I start looking from here?

geoffrey
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