wip/hercules4aethra 4.6.0.20230618 NetBSD

The Aethra version of Hercules 4.x (Hyperion)

System: NetBSD
Repository: pkgsrc-wip
Maintainer: [email protected]
License: qpl-v1.0
Categories: wip, emulators

Description

This is an activiely developed version of emulators/hercules.

Hercules is an open source software implementation of the mainframe System/370 and ESA/390 architectures, in addition to the new 64-bit z/Architecure. Hercules runs under Linux, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, and NetBSD. Hercules was created by Roger Bowler and maintained by Jay Maynard. Jan Jaeger designed and implemented many of the advanced features of Hercules, including dynamic reconfiguration, integrated console, interpretive execution, and z/Architecture support.

Relevant mailing lists include https://groups.io/g/h390-vm and https://hercules-390.groups.io/g/group.

This version is developed by SoftDevLabs.

The hercifc program, which is only used when configuring network devices, is installed suid root, only accessible by group "hercules".

Install

From pkgsrc-wip (no binary package):

cd /usr/pkgsrc/wip/hercules4aethra && make install clean

Dependency graph

Ports that need it on the left, what it needs to run on the right; at most 8 of each. "Dependencies" below lists them all.

graph LR
  me["wip/hercules4aethra"]
  me --> d0["archivers/bzip2"]
  me --> d1["converters/libiconv"]
  me --> d2["devel/libltdl"]
  me --> d3["devel/zlib"]
  me --> d4["math/hercules4sdl-decnumber"]
  me --> d5["math/hercules4sdl-softfloat"]
  me --> d6["net/hercules4sdl-telnet"]
  me --> d7["security/hercules4sdl-crypto"]
  classDef this fill:#ab2b28,color:#ffffff,stroke:#ab2b28
  class me this

Dependencies

Run dependencies 8

No port depends on this one.