Also, FWIW, make xconfig dies here as follows:
....
gcc -I/usr/src/linux/include -o tkparse tkparse.o tkcond.o tkgen.o
../tkparse < ../arch/i386/config.in > kconfig.tmp
make[1]: *** [kconfig.tk] Error 139
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-1.3.30/scripts'
make: *** [xconfig] Error 2
Rick