cannot "make" anything - Please Help

["Brian J. Stults" <bs7452@csc.albany.edu>]

When I try to make zImage, I get tons of errors like the ones listed at
the end of this message.  It happens with almost anything that I try to
make (glibc, gcc, etc.)  Any ideas?

Also possibly related, when I "./configure" when trying to compile make,
I get this message:

checking argument types of select()... configure: error: can't determine
argument types

Thanks.

Error messages when doing "make zImage" for kernel 2.2.10 follow:

In file included from /usr/local/include/stdio.h:57,
                 from conmakehash.c:17:
/usr/local/include/libio.h:333: parse error before `_IO_sgetn'
/usr/local/include/libio.h:333: parse error before `size_t'
/usr/local/include/libio.h:333: warning: data definition has no type or
storage class
In file included from conmakehash.c:17:
/usr/local/include/stdio.h:233: parse error before `size_t'
/usr/local/include/stdio.h:239: parse error before `size_t'
/usr/local/include/stdio.h:269: parse error before `size_t'
/usr/local/include/stdio.h:273: parse error before `size_t'
/usr/local/include/stdio.h:277: parse error before `size_t'
/usr/local/include/stdio.h:442: parse error before `fread'
/usr/local/include/stdio.h:442: parse error before `size_t'
/usr/local/include/stdio.h:443: warning: data definition has no type or
storage class
And so on....
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Brian J. Stults
Doctoral Candidate
Department of Sociology
University at Albany - SUNY
Phone: (518) 442-4652  Fax: (518) 442-4936
Web: www.albany.edu/~bs7452