Too many levels of symbolic links

Hi,

Error message with gcc (GCC) 3.2 20020903 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2-7), and
kernel 4.20.

mkdir .libs
rm -fr .libs/libavcodeci386.la .libs/libavcodeci386.*
.libs/libavcodeci386.*
(cd . && ln -s cputest.lo cputest.lo)
(cd . && ln -s dsputil_mmx.lo dsputil_mmx.lo)
(cd . && ln -s fdct_mmx.lo fdct_mmx.lo)
(cd . && ln -s idct_mmx.lo idct_mmx.lo)
(cd . && ln -s motion_est_mmx.lo motion_est_mmx.lo)
(cd . && ln -s mpegvideo_mmx.lo mpegvideo_mmx.lo)
(cd . && ln -s simple_idct_mmx.lo simple_idct_mmx.lo)
ar cru .libs/libavcodeci386.al cputest.lo dsputil_mmx.lo fdct_mmx.lo
idct_mmx.lo motion_est_mmx.lo mpegvideo_mmx.lo simple_idct_mmx.lo
ar: cputest.lo: Too many levels of symbolic links
make[3]: *** [libavcodeci386.la] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory
`/usr/local/avifile-0.7-0.7.38/ffmpeg/libavcodec/i386'
make[2]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/usr/local/avifile-0.7-0.7.38/ffmpeg/libavcodec'
make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/avifile-0.7-0.7.38/ffmpeg'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
[root@localhost avifile-0.7-0.7.38]#


I hope somebody can help me.

Istvan