unable to proceed after this process

[chrysogenum]

s1n1ster@S1N1STER:~/IRAF/iraf-2.17$ make <arch>
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'
s1n1ster@S1N1STER:~/IRAF/iraf-2.17$ make <linux64>
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'
s1n1ster@S1N1STER:~/IRAF/iraf-2.17$ make <x86_64>
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'
s1n1ster@S1N1STER:~/IRAF/iraf-2.17$ 

[olebole]

When you run make, you should omit the < > signs, i.e. make linux64 if you want to run it on a 64-bit linux architecture. The error message you see comes because the > is a redirection of the shell (bask) and expects a file name where the output of the command shall be written to.