building aspell on bsdi 4.0

[George Mandella]

Hi all,
I am trying to build aspell .27.2 on bsdi 4.0 and having little luck.  I 
seem to be using an adequate compiler, my version numbers are printed 
below.

c++ -v 
returns:
Reading specs from /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/i386-pc-bsdi4.0/2.8.1/specs
gcc version 2.8.1

g++ -v
returns:
 gcc2 -v
Reading specs from /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/i386-pc-bsdi4.0/2.8.1/specs
gcc version 2.8.1

When I make (using either normal make or GNU make 3.77) I get a lot of 
errors about files and directories not being found.  I can copy and paste 
the output if anyone is interested, otherwise, I was just wondering if this 
sounds like a familiar problem or if someone has successfully built this on 
BSDI before.

Thanks,
George