John Galt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, S.Salman Ahmed wrote: >> >>>>> "John" == John Galt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
