Ispell make all blows up

Hello everyone. I am following the destructions from https://www.afp548.com/Articles/web/squirrelspell.html and can't get past make-all. The compiler tells me that there are no words in the american dictionary and it's all downhill from there. rm -f american.med ln english.med american.med make SHELLDEBUG=+vx americanmed.hash rm -f americanmed.hash ../../buildhash american.med ../english/english.aff americanmed.hash Counting words in dictionary ... 0 words No words in dictionary make[3]: *** [americanmed.hash] Error 1 make[2]: *** [all] Error 2 + exit 1 make[1]: *** [language-subdirs] Error 1 make: *** [all-languages] Error 2 What's going on here?