On Thu, Feb 18, 1999 at 09:55:01AM +0000, Steve Platt wrote:
> I think I had trouble with this once, as86 is contained in an obscure package
> that you need to install in order to compile kernels for legacy architectures
> like the Intel series of processors.
>
> Some distributions make the need for it more obvious than others!
>
> For instance, Debian didn't insist that I install it (through the normal
> dependancy mechanism) even though I installed the kernel-source package!
> After all, just because I'm installing kernel-source on an Intel (yuck) system
> doesn't mean that's the architecture I'll be compiling for, does it?
> :-)
The package works on any architecture, and dpkg doesn't support conditional
dependencies (eg depends on bin86 only on i386)..
Similarly kernel-package doesn't depend: bin86, even though you do need it
on i386 machines to build the kernel. You don't on the other platforms
Debian runs on though.
Hamish
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