[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Improved game starting (version 8)

[Daniel L Speyer <dspeyer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Christian Knoke wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 03:12:17PM -0500, Daniel L Speyer wrote:
> > On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Christian Knoke wrote:
> > 
> > > This patch (which applied cleanly to current CVS) still hangs
> > > on each load of a saved game, at the point when I chose a player
> > > name. The button looks "pressed" and the GUI freezes.
> > > 
> > > I'm very uncommon with the use of gdb, but it seems to show me
> > > that the program hangs in line 597 of connectdlg.c:
> > > 
> > > 595       write(stdin_pipe[1],"cmdlevel hack first\n",14);
> > > 596       c=0;
> > > 597       while(!read(stdout_pipe[0],&c,1) || c!='>'); /*Wait for 
> > > responce from the server*/
> > > 
> > 
> > Hmm, I still have no problem, even with the game you supplied.
> > 
> > Try replacing line 597 with 
> > while(!read(stdout_pipe[0],&c,1) || c!='>') fprintf(stderr,"<%c>",c);
> > and see what gets output.
> 
> The output is:
> !@#$%^<c><m><d><l><e><v><e><l>< ><h><a><c><k>< >
> 
> > 
> > Have you done anything unusual with your server interface?  
> 
> No.
> 
> > Are you using readline?  
> 
> Yes. v.4.2
> 

I suspect this is part of the problem.  Readline was a massive pain back
when I was writing TCL/tk front ends.  Could you try disabling it and
loading the game?  If that works, I'll see about adding a 'disable
readline' option to the server.

--Daniel Speyer
"May the /src be with you, always"


> 
> > Are you using localization?
> 
> Yes.
> The problem keeps present when I start with 'LANG= civclient -t trident'.
> 
> > 
> > This is the sort of place that caused lots of trouble in setting up, but
> > I'd thought I finnally had it.
> 
> When I wrote CivGo, I have had a lot of trouble with the pipes, too.
> 
> > 
> > --Daniel Speyer
> > "May the /src be with you, always"
> 
> Christian
> 
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