I know that smp and ntfs aren't supposed to work together, but I tried. Then I removed ntfs support and tried again. the modules.err contents are resultant.

make clean
make mrproper
make xconfig
make dep
nohup make bzImage 1> bz.out &
nohup make modules 1> modules.out 2> modules.err &
make[1]: Circular
/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-18.9/include/asm/smplock.h <- /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-18.9/include/linux/interrupt.h dependency dropped.
make[1]: Circular /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-18.9/include/linux/netfilter_ipv4/ip_conntrack_helper.h <- /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-18.9/include/linux/netfilter_ipv4/ip_conntrack.h dependency dropped.

I am just tired and slap-happy, anyone know what I am missing? This is finally with ntfs disabled and with apic/acpi disabled. With ntfs enabled I got a lot of:

make[4]: *** [ac.o] Error 1
make[3]: *** [_modsubdir_ac_adapter] Error 2
make[2]: *** [_modsubdir_ospm] Error 2
make[1]: *** [_modsubdir_acpi] Error 2
make: *** [_mod_drivers] Error 2

My idealism would like to acheive the subject of this thread???