Not exactly, since I have not copied the .config file anywhere yet.  I'll
do that when I get home tonight.  What I have done last night and the night
before is:

cd /usr/src/linux-2.4.2/
make mrproper (get error)
make config (get error)
make clean (get error)
make dep (get error)

Looking at the Makefile, I have not tried all possible "make xxxx" commands
but all the ones I have tried give me the error in the .hdepend file.  Thus
my question about how to repair the .hdepend file.  Someone must build or
make the file from somewhere and I corrupted it somehow, I guess.

Alan

At 09:32 AM 6/7/01 -0700, you wrote:
>it shouldn't have created any problems that 'make mrproper' wouldn't fix -
>at least, not with my understanding of make mrproper.
>
>you should also 'make clean' after you 'make dep'
>
>If you cd /whatever your source folder is...typically like
>/usr/src/linux-2.4/
>
>and then
>cp .config /temp/
>make mrproper
>cp /tmp/.config .
>make menuconfig (or make config or make xconfig)
>make dep
>
>are you saying that you then get that error?
>
>Craig