On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Hanasaki JiJi wrote:

> make menuconfig
> make -f scripts/Makefile.build obj=scripts lxdialog
> scripts/Makefile.build:10: .config: No such file or directory
> make[1]: *** No rule to make target `.config'.  Stop.
> make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2

Bring everything to a known state:

make mrproper

then try make menuconfig...  if that doesn't work, there might be a 
problem with older versions of tools.  There is a checklist in 
Documentation/Changes needed for a succesful compile.  This problem often 
happens when trying bleeding edge kernels with older distributions.  An 
acceptable behavior for a compiler yesterday may be considered a bug today 
and everyone changed.  Things move fast with newer kernels.