Re: Compile error

[jdassen@wi.leidenuniv.nl (J.H.M.Dassen)]

> as86 -0 -a -o bootsect.o bootsect.s
> make[3] as86: command not found.

> Any ideas what am doing wrong? 
Nothing. You just don't have a package installed that is required to build
the kernel:

bin86 (29 Kb) 

Section: devel
Version: 0.3-1 Last modified: Fri Apr 26 10:47:00 1996 
Architecture: i386 
Maintainer: 
     Joost Witteveen <joost@rulcmc.leidenuniv.nl> 
Description: 
     Assembler and loader for kernel compilation. 
Depends: 
     libc5 

> BTW I noticed a new vmlinux that is twice
> as large as my vmlinuz, so am guessing as86 has something to do with 
> compressing vmlinux.

I'm not really sure. It is needed to build the 16-bit start-code for
the kernel. After this code is executed, the compressed kernel image
is decompressed.

Hope this helps,
Ray
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