[Freeciv] Re: help!

[Kero van Gelder <kero@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> >I have to be honest and say I don't really have much of a clue about
> >Unix, but I used to be a past addict of civilisation, and would really,
> >really like to install Freeciv on my Unix HP-UX platfrom at University.
> >
> >I've downloaded the tar.gz file but when I try the command;
> >
> >gunzip -c file |tar xv
> >
> >It comes back with
> >
> >tar: cannot open /dev/rmt/0m
> >Broken pipe
> >
> >Does anyone have an idiots guide to installation?
> 
> I'm very sorry, this is my fault.  I recently updated these instructions,
> and made a typo.  Thanks for reporting the problem.
> 
> The command should be:
> 
>   gunzip -c file |tar xvf -
> 
> or, some newer tar programs can do it all for you:
> 
>   tar zxvf file
> 
> (actually, try this one first, it's easier).
> 
> I'll change the web page immediately.

I installed FreeCiv on HP-UX 11 (at my work).

However, I had to remove the -O2 option from gcc (I hacked the
configure script for that). gcc 2.8.1, I believe.

The faulty optimisation is triggered by returning from the myrand()
function. I got a Bus Error (a typical HP-UX message, telling you
absolutely nothing). gdb told me the return statement crashed.

NB: I am fortunate partly: gdk was already installed by SysOp :-)

NB2: I installed ImLib, which refused to relocate im_palette.pal into
~/etc instead of /usr/local/etc. Work-around is writing the entire
file-name in ~/.imrc as an option.

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