diff --git a/package/rene/dosemu/dosemu.conf b/package/rene/dosemu/dosemu.conf
index a2e1cd461..ff185f10f 100644
--- a/package/rene/dosemu/dosemu.conf
+++ b/package/rene/dosemu/dosemu.conf
@@ -20,20 +20,9 @@
 # 
 # --- ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
 
-
-dosemu_main ()
-{
-	eval WAIT=no $MAKE $makeopt
-	eval WAIT=no $MAKE $makeopt dosbin
-
-	# the installation process ...
-	cp -vf bin/{dos,dosdebug,xdos} $root/$prefix/bin
-	mkdir -p $root/etc/dosemu
-	cp -vf etc/dosemu.{conf,users.*} $root/etc/dosemu
-
-	mkdir -p $root/var/lib/dosemu
-	cp -vf etc/global.conf $root/var/lib/dosemu
-}
-
-custmain="dosemu_main"
+# dosemu does not like to much messing with gcc options - quick work around
+# for now ...
+GCC_WRAPPER_INSERT=""
+GCC_WRAPPER_APPEND=""
+GCC_WRAPPER_REMOVE="-m*"
 
diff --git a/package/rene/dosemu/dosemu.desc b/package/rene/dosemu/dosemu.desc
index e648a429d..dd666dabe 100644
--- a/package/rene/dosemu/dosemu.desc
+++ b/package/rene/dosemu/dosemu.desc
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 [COPY] 
 [COPY] --- ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
 
-[I] A dos emulator
+[I] A DOS emulator
 
 [T] DOSEMU stands for DOS Emulation, and is a linux application that
 [T] enables the Linux OS to run many DOS programs - including some DPMI
@@ -37,8 +37,8 @@
 
 [L] LGPL
 [S] Stable
-[V] 1.0.2
+[V] 1.1.99.1
 [P] X -----5---9 695.000
 
-[D] 1894365136 dosemu-1.0.2.tgz http://dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/dosemu/
+[D] 0 dosemu-1.1.99.1.tgz http://dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/dosemu/
 
diff --git a/package/rene/dosemu/errno.patch b/package/rene/dosemu/errno.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 6cf67ce95..000000000
--- a/package/rene/dosemu/errno.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,41 +0,0 @@
-# --- ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN ---
-# 
-# This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
-# Please add additional copyright information _after_ the line containing
-# the ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END tag. Otherwise it might get removed by
-# the ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch script. Do not edit this copyright text!
-# 
-# ROCK Linux: rock-src/package/rene/dosemu/errno.patch
-# ROCK Linux is Copyright (C) 1998 - 2003 Clifford Wolf
-# 
-# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
-# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
-# (at your option) any later version. A copy of the GNU General Public
-# License can be found at Documentation/COPYING.
-# 
-# Many people helped and are helping developing ROCK Linux. Please
-# have a look at http://www.rocklinux.org/ and the Documentation/TEAM
-# file for details.
-# 
-# --- ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
-
-diff -u misc.org/lpt.c misc/lpt.c
---- ./src/base/dev/misc.org/lpt.c	Sun Mar 11 14:27:24 2001
-+++ ./src/base/dev/misc/lpt.c	Wed Mar 19 16:28:43 2003
-@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
- #include <unistd.h>
- #include <stdlib.h>
- #include <sys/wait.h>
-+#include <errno.h>
- 
- #include "emu.h"
- #include "dosio.h"
-@@ -137,7 +138,6 @@
- printer_flush(int prnum)
- {
-   int returnstat;
--  extern int errno;
- 
-   p_printf("LPT: flushing printer %d, %s\n", prnum, lpt[prnum].dev);
- 
diff --git a/package/rene/dosemu/slang.patch b/package/rene/dosemu/slang.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 6c1a0ee8a..000000000
--- a/package/rene/dosemu/slang.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
-# --- ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN ---
-# 
-# This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
-# Please add additional copyright information _after_ the line containing
-# the ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END tag. Otherwise it might get removed by
-# the ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch script. Do not edit this copyright text!
-# 
-# ROCK Linux: rock-src/package/rene/dosemu/slang.patch
-# ROCK Linux is Copyright (C) 1998 - 2003 Clifford Wolf
-# 
-# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
-# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
-# (at your option) any later version. A copy of the GNU General Public
-# License can be found at Documentation/COPYING.
-# 
-# Many people helped and are helping developing ROCK Linux. Please
-# have a look at http://www.rocklinux.org/ and the Documentation/TEAM
-# file for details.
-# 
-# --- ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
-
-needed for the errno problem in supplied slang lib
-
---- ./compiletime-settings.org	Sat May  5 13:43:06 2001
-+++ ./compiletime-settings	Wed Mar 19 16:43:30 2003
-@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
-   x on
-   net on
-   dodebug off
--  slangforce on
-+  slangforce off
-   oldslang off
-   runasroot off
-   linkstatic off