plz help me!

[Adam Horvath]

Hello

after many uses, one day, when i said: make menuconfig, this happened:
(i dont remember changing ANYTHING at all on the machine)
could you help me, or i should wipe this whole thing ??
/ kern. ver 2.2.16 machine: DX4-100 w/ 16mb of RAM, 420 MB of HD w/ 68mb
left /
thank you,
Adam

rm -f include/asm
( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm)
make -C scripts/lxdialog all
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.16/scripts/lxdialog'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.16/scripts/lxdialog'
/bin/sh scripts/Menuconfig arch/i386/config.in
Using defaults found in .config
Preparing scripts: functions, parsingAwk died with error code 139.
Giving up.
....scripts/Menuconfig: unexpected EOF while looking for `''
scripts/Menuconfig: ./MCmenu11: line 149: syntax error
....scripts/Menuconfig: unexpected EOF while looking for `''
scripts/Menuconfig: ./MCmenu15: line 98: syntax error
make: *** [menuconfig] Error 1
....

ps:  ive already tried reinstalling awk...