[plug] kernel compile problems

[sol]

Hi there,

I was just trying to compile a 2.4.18 kernel on Debian Woody and I've just had 
two consecutive failures. I don't understand the error.

mkdir -p 
/usr/src/linux-2.4.18/debian/tmp-image/lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/drivers/block/
cp loop.o 
/usr/src/linux-2.4.18/debian/tmp-image/lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/drivers/block/
cp: cannot stat 'loop.o': No such file or directory
make[4]: ***[_modinst__] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-2.4.18/drivers/block'
make[3]: ***[_modinst_block] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-2.4.18/drivers'
make[2]: ***[_modinst_drivers] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-2.4.18'
make[1]: ***[real_stamp_image] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-2.4.18'

Then it returns to the prompt. 
The first time I did this I did it from /usr/src/linux which was a symbolic 
link to /usr/src/linux-2.4.18, the second time I tried doing this from 
/usr/src/linux-2.4.18; not that this should have made any difference, I just 
thought I had better explain this.

Any ideas on what may be going wrong here?

ta,
sol