anyone get kernel 2.5 to compile?

[Hanasaki JiJi <hanasaki@hanaden.com>]

Any ideas about the below error?  It is from the kernel.org download

make menuconfig
make -f scripts/Makefile.build obj=scripts lxdialog
scripts/Makefile.build:10: .config: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `.config'.  Stop.
make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2

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