Unable to build on Ubuntu 16.04

[gianmarcotoso]

Sorry to open an issue but I've been hitting a wall for the past few weeks, as I cannot get aeon to compile. I've tried on 3 different servers (one of which was a fresh installation of Ubuntu 16.04) and I consistently get this error

[ 44%] Linking CXX executable connectivity_tool
/usr/bin/ld: cannot open output file connectivity_tool: Is a directory
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
src/CMakeFiles/connectivity_tool.dir/build.make:108: recipe for target 'src/connectivity_tool' failed
make[2]: *** [src/connectivity_tool] Error 1
CMakeFiles/Makefile2:290: recipe for target 'src/CMakeFiles/connectivity_tool.dir/all' failed
make[1]: *** [src/CMakeFiles/connectivity_tool.dir/all] Error 2
Makefile:138: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2

I've also tried to make individual targets such as simplewallet but I get the same error, only for simplewallet instead of connectivity_tool.

[gianmarcotoso]

I finally managed to compile it. I was running cmake . && make within the root folder, and the build was failing because of output filenames clashing with the names of folders already present within the root. I solved by creating a new directory called dist, moving in there and running cmake .. && make