em86 deb (was RE: multia boot (ramdisk?) problem)

[Loic Prylli <Loic.Prylli@ens-lyon.fr>]

Guenter Geiger writes:
 > 
 > 
 > > -----Original Message-----
 > > From: Randall K. Norviel [mailto:rk@entropy.muc.muohio.edu]
 > 
 > > Hiya,
 > >    I was wondering why there aren't any em86 debs (as it is GPL).
 > >
 > > Randall
 > >
 > 
 > Isn´t there a part in em86 that requires either the non-free bochs or
 > FX32 code/binary ?

Compaq/Digital provides a binary-only library (probably derived from
FX!32) which is necessary to build em86. But anyway even in non-free,
it would be really nice to have an em86 package available (I use em86
for netscape, but should work for wordperfect and applix). Just nobody
had time to package it: the tricky part being extracting from i386
package a carefully choosen set of i386 libraries, to include in an
associated package. I think if it is possible to support both libc5
libraries and libc6 libraries at the same time, but I have not tried.

Any volunteer?

Regards,

Loic

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