Okay...that looks a little odd.  Try doing a ``make clean'' before ``make
depend''.  (If you have built/tried-to-build a kernel from a config file
with the same name, previously, the new kernel build directory will
sometimes have cruft left over from the previous build(s)---or attempts at
builds---which can cause problems.  A ``make clean'' just before ``make
depend'' should clear out any rubbish.)


If that doesn't help, and no one else has any other ideas, you might
provide the following:

 * The exact commands that you used to do that.  (Probably nothing
   interesting will come of that, but it's only a few 1's and 0's, right?)

 * Your kernel config.


  ``I probably don't know what I'm talking about.'' --rauch@math.rice.edu