Compiling kernel: where/what is as86, ld86?

[Bill Hogan <bhogan@rahul.net>]

"MDM" == Matthew D Moss <mmoss@io.com> writes:

  MDM> When building the kernel, I do make zImage; it heads into the
  MDM> arch/i386/boot directory and comes back that it can't find as86, and
  MDM> looking at the Makefile, I suspect it would also have problems with
  MDM> ld86.

  MDM> What are these? Simply changing to as and ld doesn't
  MDM> work... .where are they?

# type -p as ld as86 ld86
/usr/bin/as
/usr/bin/ld
/usr/bin/as86
/usr/bin/ld86

# dpkg --search `type -p as ld as86 ld86`
binutils: /usr/bin/as
binutils: /usr/bin/ld
bin86: /usr/bin/as86
bin86: /usr/bin/ld86

# dpkg --status binutils
Package: binutils
Status: install ok installed
Priority: standard
Section: devel <----------------------------------
Maintainer: Ian Murdock <imurdock@debian.org>
Version: 2.5.2
Revision: 3
Conflicts: gas
Description: The GNU assembler and binary utilities.

# dpkg --status bin86
Package: bin86
Status: install ok installed
Priority: standard
Section: devel <----------------------------------
Maintainer: Ian Murdock <imurdock@debian.org>
Version: 0.1
Revision: 2
Description: Assembler and loader for kernel compilation.


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