Shairport make error on RetroPie

Question

Following the Readme instructions (as well as other websites), I get some errors when using the make command while building Shairport. I configure it and it all seems okay:

pi@retropie ~/shairport $ sudo ./configure
Configuring Shairport
OpenSSL found
libao found
PulseAudio found
ALSA found
Avahi client found
getopt.h not found
CFLAGS: -D_REENTRANT -I/usr/include/alsa -D_REENTRANT
LDFLAGS: -lm -lpthread -lssl -lcrypto -lao -lpulse-simple -lpulse -lasound -lavahi-common -lavahi-client
Configure successful. You may now build with 'make'

But when I do the make command, I get an error and I cannot figure out the problem:

pi@retropie ~/shairport $ sudo make
cc -c -O2 -Wall -D_REENTRANT   -I/usr/include/alsa   -D_REENTRANT   shairport.c
cc1: error: /usr/local/include/arm-linux-gnueabihf: Not a directory
cc1: warning: /usr/local/include: not a directory [enabled by default]
Makefile:60: recipe for target 'shairport.o' failed
make: *** [shairport.o] Error 1

My best guess is that there is something missing in RetroPie.

https://github.com/abrasive/shairport

Answer 1

I figured it out:

In the /usr/local directory were two files, include and lib. I deleted the two files and re-ran the make command and it all worked well. I guess it cannot create directories with the same names as files in a directory.

Found it here.