[NCLUG] Problem recompiling Redhat 8.0 kernel 2.4.18-18.8.0

[Gabriel L Somlo]

Hi,

Today I tried to recompile the kernel on my shiny new RedHat 8.0 install (with  
the latest kernel version, 2.4.18-18.8.0).

I did the following:

        cd /usr/src/linux-2.4
        make mrproper
	cp configs/kernel-2.4.18-i686.config ./.config
        make dep; make clean 
        make bzImage

I get an ugly long error message eventually, but that's not the point. The
point is this shouldn't happen, since I'm using the RedHat-provided stock
configuration file and it should compile something more or less identical to
the binary kernel provided in the kernel-2.4.18-18.8.0.i686.rpm binary package.

I've googled for this a bit, and found others with the same problem, but no
solution.

Did any of you encounter this, and did you find a workaround ?

Thanks,

Gabriel