On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 10:02:39AM -0400, David Z Maze wrote: > Uh, no. The bin86 package is needed to compile 16-bit 8086-compatible > source code. This pretty much means that it's only needed to compile > the kernel boot loader itself (I wouldn't be surprised if the LILO > source needed it too, but people never recompile that). In > particular, it's *not* needed to recompile kernel modules.
And starting with 2.4.x kernels this requirement has been lifted, and you only need a recent version of binutils. -- // André
