Compile problem for 2.4.26

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I'm trying to compile 2.4.16 for my laptop.  I do all the
make clean
make mrproper
make menuconfig

all work fine, but when I do make bzImage,
I get

drivers/sound/sounddrivers.o(.data+0x274): undefined references to 'local symbols in discarded section .text.exit'

make:*** [vmlinux] Error 1


What's going on?

john