Re: Linux Newbie with Compiling Problems...

From: pa3gcu (terhi.victor@logonet.com)
Date: Mon Mar 03 2003 - 00:06:11 EET

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    On Sunday 02 March 2003 21:11, wb9mjn wrote:
    > Hi All,
    >
    > I think I may have found a workaround.

    I doubt that very much, 'as' is not 'as86'
    as = the portable GNU assembler
    as86 = Assembler for 8086..80386 processors

    But having said that it would not suprise me to see that Mandarke have
    converted both into one and simply called it 'as'.

    > With allot of looking, I
    > found that as86 is a part of a package that does the same thing as dev86
    > (real mode assembly). So, I started looking around in the directories that
    > dev86 deposits its files. No, 'as86' (or 'as') was not part of dev86
    > itself. But, the system had installed a program called 'as' in /usr/bin/
    > directory. I did a 'as --help' command and the result made it clear that
    > this was indeed an assembler program. So, made a copy of 'as' renamed to
    > 'as86' and did
    >
    > make clean
    > make bzImage
    >
    > It seems to be taking allot longer than previously. Hopefully this
    > will work. Any comments?

    Tell us if it did work and you can actually boot you kernel assembled with as
    called as86.

    > 73, Don...

    -- 
    Regards Richard
    terhi.victor@logonet.com
    http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/
    

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