for more fun
first, the project is findable at
http://freshmeat.net/projects/dosemu/ i had to install bash, libhistory, and libintl [all available here] to even get started
then i get to play with bin86,
http://freshmeat.net/projects/bin86/, another requirement for dosemu. the as86 part compiles fine, so long as you take of the "-s" from the final compile line. i did the final cc line myself, but i imagine you can do it through "make" by changing as/Makefile so that LDFLAGS= nada [nada being nothing, of course, don't type nada]
problem then is ld86. it complains that i don't have a.out.h, and copying that from another linux or unix system doesn't make for a happy ld86.
question now is, where can one get a.out.h, or can one get by without it?