zImage, zlilo, zdisk bomb out

[guybz at moonlet.checker.com (Guy W. Bzibziak)]

When making kernels from 1.3.27 onwards to 1.3.36, I can

make config;
make dep;
make clean

without any problems, but if I try to make zImage, zlilo or zdisk, the 
whole process churns along fine until it come time to compress vmlinux, 
at which point the following happens:
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as86 -0 -a -o bootsect.o bootsect.s
ld86 -0 -s -o bootsect bootsect.o
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -E -traditional 
-DSVGA_MODE=NORMAL_VGA  setup.S -o setup.s
as86 -0 -a -o setup.o setup.s
ld86 -0 -s -o setup setup.o
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/compressed'
gcc -I/usr/src/linux/include -O2 -DSTDC_HEADERS -o xtract xtract.c
xtract.c:22: sizeof applied to an incomplete type
xtract.c: In function `main':
xtract.c:53: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
xtract.c:53: `ZMAGIC' undeclared (first use this function)
xtract.c:53: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
xtract.c:53: for each function it appears in.)
xtract.c:56: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
xtract.c:56: `QMAGIC' undeclared (first use this function)
xtract.c:59: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
make[2]: *** [xtract] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/compressed'
make[1]: *** [compressed/vmlinux] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot'
make: *** [zImage] Error 2
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I am currently running 1.2.8 (I've also gotten the same results with 
1.3.30 running) on a 33mHz Gateway 2000 Eisa 486, with 8Meg RAM.
I am using GCC 2.6.3. No ELF.

Is there something I am missing? I have never encountered this persistant 
a problem in compiling a new kernel before (BTW xtract.c has a date stamp 
of Jan  5  1995).

Thanks in advance.

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