asterisk users - Oct 2005 - newbie asterisk build

I am trying to build asterisk from the 1.0.9 stable tarballs.
I'm trying to follow these instructions:
http://www.digium.com/downloads/quick_install_zaptel_asterisk.pdf

I started with a fresh install of RedHat 9 linux
on a box with digium  card. I did a

rpm -q kernel-sources zlib zlib-devel openssl openssl-devel

and verified the requisite packages were installed.
I uncompressed and unraveled the zaptel tarball with

tar -xzf zaptel-1.0.9.2.tar.gz

followed by:

cd zaptel-1.9.0.2
make clean;make install

This resulted in lots similar to the following:

/usr/bin/ld /usr/lib/crtn.o: invalid string offset 1>0 for section `'
/usr/bin/ld /usr/lib/crtn.o: invalid string offset 4>0 for section 
`.shstrtab'

with the final show stopper

./gendigits 
make[1]: *** [tones.h] segmentation fault

What do I need to fix in order to get a clean make on these tarballs
on a RedHat 9 box?

Thanks.

Martin

>From the above I'd look at the RH9 dev environment or memory problems.
>--
>Dave Cotton <dcotton@linuxautrement.com>

I did a rpm -q
to verify all the requisite packages were installed from
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/index.php?page=Asterisk+RPM

I did a minimal RH9 install on a 17Gbyte drive.

Can you be more specific on what to look at?

Thanks for your help.

Martin