Building custom kernel

["Small, Jim" <jim.small@eds.com>]

I am trying to build a custom kernel under Debian Sparc64 using a recent 2.4
kernel.

I am running the latest of everything (unstable) via apt-get dist-upgrade.
I tried to install the minimum amount of packages necessary.  I am running
on a 2 CPU Ultra 60.  I did an apt-get kernel-source-2.4.25 (also tried
.24), unbzipped and tarred under /usr/src.

Now when I do a make menuconfig, it hangs after the Preparing scripts part:
debian{root}:/usr/src/linux<264>make menuconfig
rm -f include/asm
( cd include ; ln -sf asm-sparc64 asm)
make -C scripts/lxdialog all
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.25/scripts/lxdialog'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.25/scripts/lxdialog'
/bin/sh scripts/Menuconfig arch/sparc64/config.in
Using defaults found in arch/sparc64/defconfig
Preparing scripts: functions,
parsing...........................................................done.


(Where /usr/src/linux is a symlink to /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.25)

I don't understand why it hangs at the end.  make -d menuconfig didn't seem
to reveal anything useful either.  Ideas?

<> Jim