[gentoo-dev] bin86, why?

[gentoo-dev] bin86, why?

[Norberto Bensa]

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Hello,

what's the purpose of bin86 in system?

From 'emerge -s bin86'

	Assembler and loader used to create kernel bootsector

From /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bootsect.S

	*	modified by Chris Noe (May 1999) (as86 -> gas)

Can bin86 be removed from system, or is there other packages still using 
{as,ld}86?

Many thanks,
Norberto

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Re: [gentoo-dev] bin86, why?

[Kain]

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On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 04:11:32AM -0300, Norberto Bensa wrote:
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> Can bin86 be removed from system, or is there other packages still using 
> {as,ld}86?

You still need bin86 at least for linux-2.2 kernels, I believe.

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