[ale] as86 trouble compiling kernel

[ari]

well, i don't use redhat, so i'm not really sure what packages it has or
installs by default... but both GNU as and as86 should be in the binutils
package.

ari

Laith Haddadin (laith_h at hotmail.com) said this stuff:

> Hi Ari,
> 
>   I downloaded kernel 2.0.35 but it only has the 34 kernel and you patch 
> it to make it 35.  I tried the 34 kernel and it to gave me the same 
> problem.  Is there a way to let 'as' do the assembling instead of 
> 'as86'?  I've never had this problem before when I recompile my 32 
> kernel.  What gives?  May I have deleted a package that contains 'as86'?
> 
> >Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1998 13:27:05 -0400
> >From: ari <myo at thy.dyn.ml.org>
> >To: Laith Haddadin <laith_h at hotmail.com>, ale at cc.gatech.edu
> >Subject: Re: [ale] as86 trouble compiling kernel
> >
> >Laith Haddadin (laith_h at hotmail.com) said this stuff:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>   I'm having trouble compiling a rh 2.0.33 kernel.  make zImage dies 
> >> after it makes the object files.  It spits out errors about as86:
> >> 
> >> make[1]: Entering directory 
> >> `/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/linux/arch/i386/boot'as86 -0 -a -o 
> bootsect.o 
> >> bootsect.sas86: unrecognized option `-0'make[1]: *** [bootsect.o] 
> Error 
> >> 1make[1]: Leaving directory 
> >> `/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/linux/arch/i386/boot'make: *** [zImage] 
> Error 2
> >
> >you have a different version of as than the Makefile assumes (from the 
> looks
> >of things, as86 is GNU as on your system, which doesn't accept -0).  
> This is
> >not a problem with kernel 2.0.35.
> >
> >> 
> >> does this mean I don't have am86 on my system and if so what do I 
> need 
> >> to do to put it on my system.  
> >> 
> >> Thanks,
> >>   Laith E.H.
> >> 
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