recompilin' kernel nightmares

["Alexander P." <aromes microtec net>]

PS: Sorry to repost this message. I forgot the subject

Hi, 
>The make config,make dep, make clean steps are OK.
>But at make zImage(or bzImage) I got errors.
>Could anyone tell me what are following errors about, and
>what I should necessarily do to go around them:
>
>make zImage
>make[1]Entering directory'/usr/src/linux-2.0.32/arch/i386/boot'
>gcc -D__KERNEL__-I/usr/src/linux-2.0.32/include -E -D__ELF___traditional
-DSVG
>A_MODE=NORMAL_VGA bootsect.S -o bootsect.S
>make[1]:as86:command not found
>make[1]:***[bootsect.o] ERROR 127
>make[1]:leaving directory'/usr/src/linux-2.0.32/arch/i386/boot'
>make:***[zImage] error 2
>
>and sometimes it ends like this:
>make:***[vmlinux]Error 1
>
>I m really determined to end with this kernel recompilation
nightmare..this is why i m readin
>all docs/man pages/how to's on recompilin kernel..and did retry the make
config step on different ways durin hours 
>..pls help me.