Subj : Cails ons ons on "weird" platforms
To   : Sampsa Laine
From : Vince Coen
Date : Thu Dec 24 2015 01:58 pm

Hello Sampsa!

Wednesday December 23 2015 09:09, you wrote to me:

This is a follow on from my previous msg.

Thinking a little about your problem - I have ommited some points to consider.

1.  Is the Linux distro you are running on the host PC/server fully upto date
with all service packs and fixes and is it done on a regular basis?

If not use another one that does!

2.  Have you built both the v3 and v4 builds of Hercules so you can test each
one on this distro ?

3.  Does the Linux Distro that will run under Hercules fully up to date with
service packs and other fixes again on a regular basis and if there has not
been any or you cannot access them, find another distro.

4.  Have you installed all required packages required for C development that
mbse needs?

5.  Did you tell the mbse build to make use of all Z optimisations without
going overboard?

6.  If there are issues in installing a working C development group of
packages
on items 1 & 3 consider cross compiling on your own box, although that also
has
its issues in that find a GCC compiler that supports the Z platform.

Well thats a starter for 10 .


Vince

> -=> Vince Coen wrote to Sampsa Laine <=-

VC>> @MSGID: <[email protected]>
VC>> Hello Sampsa!

VC>> Sunday December 20 2015 17:49, you wrote to me:

>> My Debian/390x is down right now because it's really unstable on
>> Hercules and the latest crash corrupted the disk images beyond
>> repair.

>> Once I've rebuilt a SuSE (or something) z/Series box I'll get back
>> to you.

VC>> What verion of Hercules are you running and on exactly what
VC>> platform? Vince

> I think 1.0.4 or 1.0.5 and it's Debian/s390x on an emulated z/Series
> mainframe.

> It's not the easiest of installs, I don't recommend it unless you have
> a lot of time to waste.

> Sampsa

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Vince

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