I am a totally new UML user and have been trying to get uml compiled on my laptop running mandrake linux 9.0. But the compile throws up errors with the 2.5.38 as well as the 2.4.19 kernels with the correct patches. I am using gcc 3.2. Is there any known problem with that?

Are there any known issues with the compile of 2.4.19 or the 2.5 kernels? Am I missing something? I am doing the compile as instructed in the HOWTOs on the uml sourceforge site....which means I am indeed doing :
1. $tar xvf linux-2.4.19...
2. $bzcat uml-patch... | patch -p1
3. $make xconfig ARCH=um
4. $make dep
5. $make linux ARCH=um

I will post the exact error output shortly, but just wanted to confirm I am not missing something basic.

TIA,
Anand