source: final-system/x86_64-64/bin86.xml @ dc64755

Last change on this file since dc64755 was dc64755, checked in by Chris Staub <chris@…>, 18 years ago

Text fixes, mainly in capitalization in the names of Lilo and GRUB

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[3f01f60]1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
3  "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
4  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5  %general-entities;
6]>
7<sect1 id="ch-system-bin86" role="wrap">
8  <?dbhtml filename="bin86.html"?>
9
10  <title>Bin86-&bin86-version;</title>
11
12  <indexterm zone="ch-system-bin86">
13    <primary sortas="a-Bin86">Bin86</primary>
14  </indexterm>
15
16  <sect2 role="package">
17    <title/>
18
19    <para>The Bin86 package contains an assembler and linker to produce
20      16 or 32-bit 8086 machine code.</para>
21
22  </sect2>
23
24
25  <sect2 role="installation">
26    <title>Installation of Bin86</title>
27
[dc64755]28    <para os="a">We are building Bin86 because it is required to
29      compile Lilo, and at the moment no other bootloader builds and runs
[3f01f60]30      on a pure64 system. If your machine has multiple systems (i.e. x86
31      or multilib) you may prefer to use the bootloader from those
[dc64755]32      systems, such as GRUB.</para>
[3f01f60]33
[dc64755]34    <para os="p1">This patch updates Bin86 to compile on x86_64:</para>
[3f01f60]35
36<screen os="p2"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&bin86-x86_64-patch;</userinput></screen>
37
38    <para os="c">Compile the package:</para>
39
40<screen os="d"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
41
42    <para os="e">Install the package:</para>
43
44<screen os="f"><userinput>make PREFIX=/usr install</userinput></screen>
45
46  </sect2>
47
48  <sect2 id="contents-bin86" role="content">
49    <title>Contents of Bin86</title>
50
51    <segmentedlist>
52      <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
53
54      <seglistitem>
55        <seg>as86, ld86, nm86, objdump86, size86</seg>
56      </seglistitem>
57    </segmentedlist>
58
59    <variablelist>
60      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
61      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
62      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
63
64      <varlistentry id="as86">
65        <term><command>as86</command></term>
66        <listitem>
67          <para>An 8086 assembler</para>
68          <indexterm zone="ch-system-bin86 as86">
69            <primary sortas="b-as86">as86</primary>
70          </indexterm>
71        </listitem>
72      </varlistentry>
73
74      <varlistentry id="ld86">
75        <term><command>ld86</command></term>
76        <listitem>
77          <para>A linker for the object files produced by as86</para>
78          <indexterm zone="ch-system-bin86 ld86">
79            <primary sortas="b-ld86">ld86</primary>
80          </indexterm>
81        </listitem>
82      </varlistentry>
83
84      <varlistentry id="nm86">
85        <term><command>nm86</command></term>
86        <listitem>
87          <para>Symbolic link to objdump86</para>
88          <indexterm zone="ch-system-bin86 nm86">
89            <primary sortas="b-nm86">nm86</primary>
90          </indexterm>
91        </listitem>
92      </varlistentry>
93
94      <varlistentry id="objdump86">
95        <term><command>objdump86</command></term>
96        <listitem>
97          <para>A utility to examine and report on the output from as86 and ld86</para>
98          <indexterm zone="ch-system-bin86 objdump86">
99            <primary sortas="b-objdump86">objdump86</primary>
100          </indexterm>
101        </listitem>
102      </varlistentry>
103
104      <varlistentry id="size86">
105        <term><command>size86</command></term>
106        <listitem>
107          <para>Symbolic link to objdump86</para>
108          <indexterm zone="ch-system-bin86 size86">
109            <primary sortas="b-size86">size86</primary>
110          </indexterm>
111        </listitem>
112      </varlistentry>
113
114    </variablelist>
115
116  </sect2>
117
118</sect1>
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