Trying to compile 2.6.10 with Speakup

[Dan Murphy]

Hi.
I am running Slackware 10.1 and have tried twice now to compile a 2.6.10 
kernel with speakup2.0.
the installation file indicates that I should do make mrproper from the 
/usr/src/linux-2.6.10 directory before running .install from 
/usr/src/speakup-2.0.
when I do this, I see 3 out of 13 hunks fail, and I have no idea how to 
debug any of that.
Need some help here.
thanks.