Kernel 2.2.19 compile problem

[Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de>]

Hello,

it's really strange that this problem shouldn't occure before.

  apt-get install kernel-source-2.2.19

worked well on my potato 2.2r3 system.  I unpacked the sources
in /usr/src and tried to 

/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.19# make menuconfig
mv: cannot create regular file `include/linux/version.h': No such file or directory
make: *** [include/linux/version.h] Error 1

I havn't the slightest idea what might went wrong here.

Note that this failure was on the machine which had now its third 
crash this weekend :-(.  I reported about this issue under the topic
"power Error" on this list.  I wanted to give a newer kernel a try,
but was struck by this problem.

For sure there is 

/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.19# ls -l include/linux/v*
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root           75 Dec 28  1998 include/linux/vfs.h
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         1494 Aug 26  1999 include/linux/video_decoder.h
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          847 Aug 26  1999 include/linux/video_encoder.h
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         9231 Nov 18 01:22 include/linux/videodev.h-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         4529 Jul 18  1998 include/linux/videotext.h
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          623 Nov 18 01:22 include/linux/vmalloc.h
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         1997 Mar 24  1996 include/linux/vt.h
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         1854 Mar 28  1999 include/linux/vt_buffer.h
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         2972 Mar 28  1999 include/linux/vt_kern.h

and I can also

/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.19# touch include/linux/version.h
/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.19# ls -l include/linux/version.h
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Apr 17 15:27 include/linux/version.h

Is this a problem of the source package.  I compiled 

# uname -a
Linux bse 2.2.18pre21 #1 SMP Tue Dec 19 22:53:19 CET 2000 sparc64 unknown

myself without any problem on this machine.

Kind regards

         Andreas.