Re: Nethack and Cygwin - Compils, Installs and doesn't work :)

Re: Nethack and Cygwin - Compils, Installs and doesn't work :)

[Robert Collins]

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On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 11:17, Brian Rowe wrote:
> Any idea where they are now?  When I looked at the
> list of support applications nethack was not on there.
> In nethack 3.3 almost all of the cygwin compile
> statements have been removed.  The cursor just flashes
> around the screen, and I have to close cygwin.  If you
> have any of those files or what you changed, I'd like

Please keep the discussion onlist, for the archives.

I'm sorry, but I don't have those old files around anymore.
You might try a couple of versions back, until it works, and then binary
search forward to find what broke it.

Cheers,
Rob

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Re: Nethack and Cygwin - Compils, Installs and doesn't work :)

[Francois de Campagnolle]

Any chance to see this in std distrib one day ?

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From: "Dean S. Austin" <beans@theworld.com>
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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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Re: Nethack and Cygwin - Compils, Installs and doesn't work :)

[Dean S. Austin]

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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Re: Nethack and Cygwin - Compils, Installs and doesn't work :)

[Robert Collins]

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On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 10:31, 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?

It worked fine a couple of years back. I sent some patches off for it,
which got accepted.

Cheers,
Rob
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Nethack and Cygwin - Compils, Installs and doesn't work :)

[Brian Rowe]

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?


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