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Re: Compiling kernel: where/what is as86, ld86?



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

That is a known bug --- compiling the kernel requires the bin86 package which
unfortunately isn't listed as a Depends:. You will find bin86 in
	stable/binary/devel

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Dirk Eddelb"uttel                              http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd



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