Bug 145446 – app-emulation/bochs-2.3 released, version bump request

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Pavel Shirov 2006-08-28 23:57:26 UTC]

Date: 2006-08-27 04:26 
Summary: Bochs 2.3 released

Bochs is a highly portable open source IA-32 (x86) PC emulator 
written in C++, that runs on most popular platforms. It includes 
emulation of the Intel x86 CPU, common I/O devices, and a custom 
BIOS. Currently, Bochs can be compiled to emulate a 386, 486, 
Pentium, Pentium Pro or x86-64 CPU, including optional MMX,  
SSE/SSE2/SSE3 and 3DNow! instructions. Bochs is capable of running 
most Operating Systems inside the emulation including Linux, DOS, 
Windows 95/98 and Windows NT/2000/XP. 
 
Brief summary of changes since vorsion 2.2.6:  
 
- limited save/restore support added (config + log options, hardware state) 
- configuration parameter handling rewritten to a parameter tree 
- lots of cpu and internal debugger fixes 
- hard disk geometry autodetection now supported by most of the image types 
- hard disk emulation now supports ATA-3 (multiple sector transfers) 
- VBE memory size increased to 8MB and several VGA/VBE fixes 
- updated LGPL'd VGABIOS to version 0.6a

[Comment 1 Andreas Niederl 2006-10-11 13:01:25 UTC]

Created attachment 99384 [details, diff]
bochs-2.3.ebuild.patch

contains differences to bochs-2.2.6.ebuild
uses a patch for Bochs from the Debian package

[Comment 2 Andreas Niederl 2006-10-11 13:03:10 UTC]

Created attachment 99385 [details, diff]
bochs-2.3-redolog_FTBFS.patch

Patch taken from Debian. Bochs won't build without it (tested with gcc-3.4.6 and gcc-4.1).

[Comment 3 M. Edward Borasky 2006-11-29 19:44:01 UTC]

I haven't tested the ebuild, but the upstream source 2.3 suffers from bug 136282 just like 2.2.6 does. I got the upstream source to build using "--disable-docbook" in the "configure" step.

[Comment 4 Brandon Captain 2007-07-20 18:59:02 UTC]

I've never quite figured out how to use 'patch'

user@helix/home/user/src/ebuild/app-emulation/bochs# patch bochs-2.2.6.ebuild b
ochs-2.3.ebuild.patch
patching file bochs-2.2.6.ebuild
patch: **** malformed patch at line 18: installed


help?

[Comment 5 Brandon Captain 2007-07-20 19:18:58 UTC]

(In reply to comment #4)

I think I got it.

[Comment 6 Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon 2007-09-03 19:41:52 UTC]

the build bug for the redolog class is being tracked upstream in bug 1787289

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1787289&group_id=12580&atid=112580

with an alternative fix to the one that debian is using and that is attached to this bug

[Comment 7 Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon 2007-09-03 21:16:33 UTC]

Created attachment 129939 [details, diff]
fixes upstream bug 1787289 that breaks build when --enable-compressed-hd

an alternative approach to the debian patch which fixes the ABI call instead of duplicating the call to create

[Comment 8 Luca Barbato 2007-09-09 11:46:34 UTC]

Committed, thank you