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From: sxjcb@orca.alaska.edu (Jay C. Beavers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: ETC01 Dist, Compiling, and Game Sources
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Date: 31 Jul 92 21:41:25 GMT
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Ok, so I'm dangerous now. Networking is going great, NFS problems are a
faint
memory, and with the help of Bill & Lynne and Usenet people at large, I've
got myself one heck of a nice Unix system!
So now I download these etc01 & src01 things and I'm trying to compile the
games directory as practice before I hit things like X-Windows and such.
First, none of the obj directories had been pre-made and make complains
unless I go in and create them by hand. It there a switch or define or
something that tells make to just create the directories itself?
Second, there was the missing libcompat.a library that I asked about
before. I've gotten around this (I think) by just removing the -libcompat
statement in the Makefile files in most cases. In trek, I had to add two
defines to main.c:
#define gtty(fd, argp) ioctl(fd, TIOCGETP, argp)
#define stty(fd, argp) ioctl(fd, TIOCSETP, argp)
(thanks so much sastdr@unx.sas.com, your good advice is well appreciated.)
Finally, I've gotten some results, mostly bad. So far:
arithmetic runs great
atc gives me a /usr/share/games/atc dir not found error even if the dir is
there
and atc has been copied into it
battlestar runs a bit and then promptly coredumps
trek seems to run fine but has supernovas almost constantly
So, my question is this: are these sources just included because they are
part of the NET/2 distribution? If so, have they never been tested? And
even so, why the problems? I can understand missing obj directories and I
guess a missing vestigial library could happen, but to have three out of
four compiled programs have serious problems seems pretty strange to me. I
thought that by using a direct decendant of 4.3BSD these compatibility
problems would be a thing of the past. Does this give a bad portent to the
porting of more serious code like X-Windows?
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| jay@seaspray.uacn.alaska.edu
Jay C. Beavers | sxjcb@orca.alaska.edu
University of Alaska Computer Network | sxjcb@alaska.bitnet
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