Why is there a "recipe for target 'XXX.o' failed" error when compiling?

Question

C++ / C#

Ubuntu 16.04
I collect different projects from github (more precisely, cryptocurrencies are approximately similar projects).
When building some, when running the make command, the recipe for target 'XXX.o' failed error occurs, for example:

Makefile:2251: recipe for target 'libbitcoin_server_a-checkpoints.o' failed

Tell me, please, what exactly does this type of error mean, because. not strong in C.
Thanks to.

Answer 1

This message means nothing . Also, an error occurred while compiling the source file(s) for the libbitcoin_server_a-checkpoints.o target. What - and who knows, look in the logs :)