diff --git a/app-emulation/hercules-sdl-telnet/hercules-sdl-telnet-4.9.1.ebuild b/app-emulation/hercules-sdl-telnet/hercules-sdl-telnet-4.9.1.ebuild
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+# Copyright 2022-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+inherit cmake dot-a
+
+# Use ../hercules-sdl/files/gen_hashes.sh to identify the relevant
+# commit when tagging new versions.
+COMMIT="384b2542dfc9af67ca078e2bc13487a8fc234a3f"
+
+DESCRIPTION="Simple RFC-complient TELNET implementation"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/SDL-Hercules-390/telnet"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/SDL-Hercules-390/telnet/archive/${COMMIT}.tar.gz -> ${PN}-${COMMIT}.tar.gz"
+
+S="${WORKDIR}/telnet-${COMMIT}"
+LICENSE="public-domain"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~ppc64"
+PATCHES=( "${FILESDIR}/cmakefix.patch" )
+
+src_configure() {
+	lto-guarantee-fat
+	cmake_src_configure
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	cmake_src_install
+	strip-lto-bytecode
+}