problem making kernel - infinite loop

[Eckhart Guthöhrlein <eckhart.guthoehrlein@uni-bielefeld.de>]

Hi all,

I have problems making a 2.6.15 kernel on a debian unstable machine,
more precisely
Linux seneca 2.6.12-1-686 #1 Tue Sep 27 12:52:50 JST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux

The problem is that after saying make, everything that happens is:

seneca:/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.15# make
  CHK     include/linux/version.h
Linux_2.6.12-1-686
Linux_2.6.12-1-686
Linux_2.6.12-1-686
Linux_2.6.12-1-686
Linux_2.6.12-1-686
Linux_2.6.12-1-686
Linux_2.6.12-1-686
Linux_2.6.12-1-686
...

and so on, infinitely.

Searching the web and the archives did not provide anything useful,
probably due to my inability of finding unique keywords to describe the
problem.

Has anybody seen something like this before? Any ideas?

Thanks in advance for your help,
Eckhart