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Hi,

On Jan 20, 1:18 pm, John Wright <j DOT  DOT  DOT  AT wacontrols DOT com> wrote:
>
> I know this is not a DJGPP topic but it is related in my effort to learn what
> you can and can't do.
>
> I have asked this question in the NASM forum but no response yet. I tried to
> install NASM on a RedHat 5.2 release with kernel 2.0.36-0.5. "make" returned
> with some GLIBC errors. Is this a matter of updating binutils to satisfy the
> dependencies that it is looking for?  Or is this even possible for a Linux
> version this old? Is there a cut-off kernel version?
>
> Any comments would be appreciated.

So you're trying to compile NASM for an old Linux kernel? Which GCC +
BinUtils are you using? NASM 0.98.39 and older were ANSI C89, but
newer requires C99. You could also try YASM (C89), but it lacks OMF/
OBJ support (as does FASM).

Actually, I had very briefly (tested only with one source) tried FASM
on an old Linux (tomsrtbt), and it worked, so you could try that. The
advantage there is that it assembles itself.

I don't think BinUtils matters much here, but you should use an
appropriate version with your GCC. Libc5 is probably what you're using
as this is a quite old Linux. Actually, perhaps you can cross-compile
a Linux version with OpenWatcom, and just run that. It should work,
even for latest NASM releases, esp. since they link statically.

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