It's typo time. Looks like an "off by one" on the keyboard.
Please apply,
Eike
--- linux-2.5.63/Makefile Mon Feb 24 20:05:08 2003
+++ linux-2.5.63-eike/Makefile Wed Feb 26 16:58:13 2003
@@ -580,7 +580,7 @@
. scripts/mkspec >kernel.spec
# Build a tar ball, generate an rpm from it and pack the result
-# There arw two bits of magic here
+# There are two bits of magic here
# 1) The use of /. to avoid tar packing just the symlink
# 2) Removing the .dep files as they have source paths in them that
# will become invalid