Hello Maurice,

On 03 Jan 15 15:49, Maurice Kinal wrote to Nicholas Boel:

 NB>> I just upgraded my Gentoo kernel to 3.17.7-gentoo i686 and my
 NB>> door games under dosemu are still working fine. They were also
 NB>> working just fine when I was running 3.16.5 prior to that.

 MK> Yes but are you compiling dosemu or running a precompiled statically
 MK> linked dosemu?

I'm running the one available from portage, so it compiled the way the gentoo
devs made it available. I discussed issues with the gentoo devs over dosemu in
the past, which amazingly was successful, and the latest version available from
portage works great on both x86 and x86_64 architectures.

 NB>> Is it possible this is a 64bit issue? I don't have a 64bit Gentoo
 NB>> VM to test it on, nor do I care to set one up.. :)

 MK> I have one 32-bit machine currently working (no gentoo on there
 MK> either), with i486-pc-linux-gnu, I could test compile a dosemu on.  I
 MK> seriously doubt it will compile on the current x86_64-atom-linux-gnu
 MK> or even an x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu for that matter.  I am willing to
 MK> try though given that it doesn't matter if it doesn't work.  Might be
 MK> something worth checking though, although I seriously doubt it.  ;-)

I believe these days dosemu is maintained by distro devs themselves
(separately). After I had gone through the process with the gentoo devs getting
it working properly, about a year or two later I had to do the same sort of
dealie with the Archlinux devs. I don't believe dosemu is still supported by
the original maintainers, since it's been stuck on the same version and webpage
for years, but I could be wrong.

People still have issues with dosemu on Debian. That's one distro I haven't
touched in ages. But Gentoo and Archlinux both work on 32bit and 64bit
platforms, as those I tested myself.

 NB>> What? I didn't catch anything about the fact that he was missing
 NB>> python. Though he may have upgraded to python 3.3 or 3.4 which
 NB>> might have caused issues, but I doubt it.

 MK> It's in his original message.  No python got installed for some
 MK> strange reason.

Oh. I probably got lost in the massive paragraphs. :)

Either way, what is python needed for when it comes to dosemu?

 NB>> CDRW? Heh, at LEAST step up to a DVD or BluRay burner. :)

 MK> None of those either.  I used to have a DVD burner way back when but
 MK> never really used it or even cared much about it.  I traded it for
 MK> something which I don't recall now.  Obviously I don't miss it any.

I would probably not have a problem without it either, but I have a couple
around here, so I make use of the sleeves of CD-RWs and DVD-RW I've had around
here for years. Then again, I also have a couple USB flash drives as well, and
hardly ever use any of them. *shrug*

Regards,
Nick

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