Hey Cathy,
I haven't installed on Debian recently, but I recall running into something like this. Looking at Janine's message above, it seems that make is running in the parser directory. According to the AOLSERVER.INSTALL, the only directory that you need to run make in is the aolserver directory. So, run ./configure in the main directory, then cd aolserver, run make and then cp nsfts.so to aolserver's directory (and follow the rest of the instructions in AOLSERVER.INSTALL).
