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Subject: Re: Nethack and Cygwin - Compils, Installs and doesn't work :)
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 19:38:55 +0200
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Any chance to see this in std distrib one day ?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dean S. Austin" <beans AT theworld DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 1:19 PM
Subject: Re: Nethack and Cygwin - Compils, Installs and doesn't work :)


> On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 05:31:00PM -0700, Brian Rowe wrote:
> > I got past some challenges, but am a little confused
> > on where to go next with Cygwin and debugging this.
> > Nethack compiled, no errors.
> > It installed in the /usr/games directory
> > where it put nethack.exe
> > I run nethack.exe and it just sits there, no error
> > nothing.
> > Any ideas, on what I could try or has anyone else
> > tried this?
> 
> Assuming you've resolved your earlier STRNCMPI issue...
> 
> The nethack binary shouldn't be directly in your $PATH.  On a standard
> installation it lives in the playground (by default
> /usr/games/nethackdir).  What _should_ be at /usr/games/nethack is a
> shell script that in turn runs the binary.  When I installed this a few
> weeks ago, make install bailed out on an inability to find
> /usr/games/lib/nethackdir/nethack (i.e., without the .exe tacked on); my
> workaround (probably not the most elegant) was to make a symlink there
> with the name it was looking for, comment out the rm -rf line in the
> Makefile that cleans out the existing contents of the directory, and
> rerun make install.  Runs fine now.
> 
> If you don't rerun make install some other critical things don't get
> installed, IIRC, and nethack behaves pretty much the way you're
> describing.  If you remember seeing chmod/chown errors during make
> install (no such file...), and tried to remedy things by doing it 'by
> hand', odds are this is your problem.
> 
> I seem to remember having to install the shell script by hand too
> (problem with the sed command in the Makefile), but that might just have
> been part of my blundering effort to fix things.  It may not be
> necessary.
> 
> HTH.
> 
> -- 
> Dean
> "Everybody is stupid except for me."
>    Homer J. Simpson
> 
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