Kernel 2.4.20 compilation errors

["Tom Verbreyt" <tom@abwaerts.be>]

Hey all,

In the past, I've succesfully compiled kernels many many times. Which
doesn't make me an expert, I just follow my own usual recipe without
really understanding every single option I select, and things work out
quite good.

This morning however, I'm trying to compile a 2.4.20 kernel, and time and
again, I get these errors when make-ing a bzImage:

In file included from ide-cd.c:318:
ide-cd.h:440: error: long, short, signed or unsigned used invalidly for
'slot_tablelen'
make[3]: *** [ide-cd.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory '/usr/.../drivers/ide'
make[2]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/.../drivers/ide'
make[1]: *** [_subdir_ide] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/.../drivers'
make: *** [_dir_drivers] Error 2

After that, of course, I get kicked back to my prompt.

Has anyone experienced the same behaviour? What am I doing wrong? I don't
recall having done any different configuration than previous compilations
on other machines - I don't understand why this is happening. And since
I'm not a programmer at all, I'm quite, ehm, flabberghasted.

So I was hoping someone could shed a light on this.

Thanks for any hints!
Tom

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