Just tried to build 2.4 from current bk.
config.gz is attached.

best regards,
axel

gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/local/src/system/kernel/linus-2.4/include -Wall
-Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common
-pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=pentium4   -nostdinc -iwithprefix
include -DKBUILD_BASENAME=page_alloc  -DEXPORT_SYMTAB -c page_alloc.c
page_alloc.c: In function _alloc_pages':
page_alloc.c:382: error: parse error before '{' token
page_alloc.c:339: warning: unused variable reed'
page_alloc.c: At top level:
page_alloc.c:397: error: parse error before "if"
page_alloc.c:405: warning: type defaults to 	nt' in declaration of one'
page_alloc.c:405: error: onelist' undeclared here (not in a function)
page_alloc.c:405: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
page_alloc.c:406: error: parse error before "if"
page_alloc.c:258: warning: alance_classzone' defined but not used
make[2]: *** [page_alloc.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory /usr/local/src/system/kernel/linus-2.4/mm'

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