Wednesday, May 25, 2022

Re: [update] emulators/bochs to 2.7

On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 10:11:50AM +0200, Omar Polo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> rgc <rgcinjp@disroot.org> wrote:
> > ports@
> >
> > here is an update/upgrade for bochs
> > this patch uses the latest version in sf, v2.7
> >
> > the current, v2.6.9, version has a bug that i encountered
> > when using bochs with multi-disk installs where changing
> > the disk image (during runtime) results in a crash.
> >
> > other FLAVORS compile, but i only tested the default package.
>
> It doesn't compile for me, gui/textconfig.cc is missing an include for
> stdarg.h. With that fixed, I can compile all the flavors. (btw, the

I missed a patch for that file.
I actually included bochs.h at the top, that include file has all the
includes needed.

> no_x11 flavors was never hooked, should we drop it since it's not
> packaged or add it to emulators/Makefile?)
>
> nitpicks:
>
> - REVISION should be removed when bumping the version (it goes empty,
> then 0, 1, 2, ...)
> - it does not link to ncurses anymore
> - while here, switch HOMEPAGE to https

Noted. Thanks for the reminders.

>
> I'm attaching an updated diff. I still haven't played with it, only
> built, but if nobody complains I'll commit it after some run testing :)

For me the bug I encountered, it does not occur anymore. I'm running it on
amd64 with DRDOS (that's why the floppy image swapping is a must) with
no problems so far. My macppc is not running at the moment :-( so can't
run other tests.

>
> Thanks,
>
> Omar Polo

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