PLEA FOR HELP! /usr/lib/crt1.o problems after hamm upgrade

Hi all, This is a second attempt at trying to get this issue resolved and an update, so please excuse some repetition. I upgraded to hamm over the weekend(using autoup.sh). After the upgrade I removed all devel packages to get a clean start. My first goal was to compile a new kernel. So I

/usr/lib/crt1.o problems after hamm upgrade

Hi all, I just finished an upgrade to hamm and I am having problems. The first thing I decied to do was compile a new kernel. So I download the kernel-2.0.32 source package. When I 'make menuconfig' it breaks with /usr/lib/crt1.o(.text+0xe): undefined reference to `__libc_init_first'