omitted "make" see below:
(Sorry to reply to self)
ME said:
> Two questions:
> When you make, and it fails, and then you
> # make clean
> and then make
> # make dep && make bzImage
^^^^
> and it fails, did they fail at the same place with the same error?
>
> If No and the config was not changed, then check for hardware problems,
> memory, CPU, etc.