Bugzilla Bug 116190

New ebuild for Hercules 3.03.

Created an attachment (id=75222) [edit]
hercules-3.03.ebuild

Version 3.03.1 is available, see http://www.conmicro.cx/hercules/hercnew.html

renaming the ebuild works.

Hercules 3.03.2 will be out soon, as well; the same ebuild will work there as
well.

Please note that all Hercules information is now at http://www.hercules-390.org
.

I'm not sure why but after switching from hercules-3.02 to 3.03.1 I got strange
problems when trying to start my debian/s390 system inside hercules, it would
not start the existing system (root fs not found) and crashed when trying to
format a new dasd-volume during a new installation. After switching back to
hercules-3.02 it worked again! So be aware that there might be some problems.
On the other hand, this is the first day I look at hercules, so I just might
overlook something here.

There's a reported problem with CTC devices, and a fix for a loop in CCKD DASD
that will be in 3.03.2, but nothing we know of that might be that...If you
could, please
post to the hercules-390 mailing list (yeah, I know, Yahoo! Groups sucks) and
see
if the guy who does that kind of thing has suggestions.

Hercules 3.04 is out. The same ebuild works for 3.03, 3.03.1, and 3.04.

3.04 works fine for me on amd64.

> # Do NOT replace the optimization flags automatically generated by the
> #  Hercules configure script. While, in general, the Gentoo way is to allow
> #  the user to specify his own optimization flags, this is not a good idea
> #  for Hercules. Hercules stresses the gcc optimizer, and will break in
> #  mysterious ways if its optimization settings are overridden.

Ignoring the user's CFLAGS completely will break systems which are binary
incompatible with the gcc default options. Also, some other packages which
break mysteriously with normal CFLAGS have an option custom-cflags to allow
testing anyway. Would something like

use custom-cflags || strip-flags

and then continuing to use --enable-optimization, except with sanitised flags,
be acceptable?

3.0.4 now in portage ... btw Jay, parallel install fails ... looks like the
install rules dont account for this