Re: as86 Error compling kernel-source-2.2.18

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

John Galt <galt@inconnu.isu.edu> wrote:
>On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, S.Salman Ahmed wrote:
>> >>>>> "John" == John Galt <galt@inconnu.isu.edu> writes:
>>     John>  binutils is what you're looking for....
>> 
>> as86 is part of the bin86 package on my machine:
>> 
>> @viper:[/home/ssahmed] dpkg -S `which as86`
>> bin86: /usr/bin/as86
>> 
>> FWIW, I am using sid.
>
>binutils gives you as.  Basically, binutils provides a little more
>flexibility since it's not just for x86 architecture...

Well, yes, but that's not a lot of use if you're trying to compile the
real-mode part of an i386 kernel.

Incidentally, since gcc depends on binutils, the latter will always be
installed by the time any error messages about as86 appear.

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]