Re: Linux Newbie with Compiling Problems...

[pa3gcu <pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl>]

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...

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