[H-GEN] Compiling errors - 2.2.14

[Hilton Travis]

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Hi Jason,

> > > All seems to behave itself perfectkly until, during the make
> > > bzImage stage, I get the following error:
> > >
> > > as86 -0 -a -o bbootsect.o bbootsect.s
> > > make[1]: as86: Command not found
> > > make[1]: *** [bbootsect.o] Error 127
> > > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.14/arch/i386/boot'
> > > make: *** [bzImage] Error 2
> >
> > Methinks it can't find as86 (the x86 assembler).  Usually as86 can be
> > found in /usr/bin.  If not, try
> >
> >     locate as86
> 
> Nothing.
> 
> > or
> >     find /usr -name as86 -print
> > or
> >     find / -name as86 -print
> 
> Nothing, too.
> 
> Strange thing is that I actually do have binutils-2.9.5.0.16-2 
> installed.  I
> just don't have the as86 package anywhere!
> 
> > If this doesn't find anything, you don't have it installed and 
> you'll need
> > to install it (it should be on the CD, in a package named binutils or
> > similar).
> >
> > If you have found as86 on the machine, you'll need to find the place in
> > the makefile where the failed command appears and replace "as86" with
> > "/usr/bin/as86" (or whereever you found that as86 lives on your 
> machine).
> 
> I do have a package called "as" located in /usr/bin/as - I'll give this
> a go and see what I can kill.  :-)

Nope, that gives me an error:
(I linked /usr/bin/as86 to /usr/bin/as)
as86: unrecognized option `-0'
make[1]: *** [bbootsect.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.14/arch/i386/boot'
make: *** [bzImage] Error 2

Bummer.  Any other ideas?  Any idea why, if binutils is installed,
as86 has not been installed?

Regards,
Hilton Travis

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