Re: [Plib-users] PLIB games

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

Steve Wendt wrote:
> 
> Apologies if this is not the proper place for this, but I'm not aware of a better one.
> I finally got around to trying the updated versions of TuxKart and Tux_AQFH.
> 
> Tux_AQFH was missing install.sh and mkinstalldirs, which I copied from TuxKart.
> I had to modify all of the makefiles, to change $(top_srcdir)/../mkinstalldirs to
> $(top_srcdir)/mkinstalldirs (just like it is in TuxKart).  Three files that were in a
> previous version (level14.ac, tree.rgb, and tux.mod) are not in the latest one.  Are
> they no longer used, or was this a mistake?

This is a peculiar problem - (and you aren't the first person to comment about it),
when I build these on SuSE Linux, it seems to manage without those files.

I'll make a new TuxAQFH release to fix that.

> For TuxKart, I had to add #include <sys/socket.h> to guNet.cxx.

Yes - that's also been noted...something moved from one header to another - because
again, it builds OK under SuSE Linux.

>  The file
> mfarmer.mod that was in a previous version is no longer included - obsolete, or
> mistakenly omitted?

It shouldn't be needed.  mfarmer.mod was music that I downloaded from a free
music site - but since then Matt Thomas kindly composed music especially for
TuxKart that should be MUCH easier on the ear!
 
> I also had to add -lglut to the makefiles for both games; I guess this is some error
> in the configure script?

That's strange - the configure script finds it on my system.  Do you have GLUT installed
in some unusual place?  (It should be /usr/lib/libglut.a or libglut.so)
 
> Anyway, I got both games built.  However, I couldn't get either one to work
> correctly.  In TuxKart, when I press the Start button, it just sits there on the same
> screen, until I kill it.  In Tux_AQFH, when I press the Space bar, the menu comes
> up, and then it is similarly hung.  I compiled both of these with Mesa 3.5, perhaps
> that is the problem?  I've been meaning to revert to Mesa 3.4.2, since 3.5 doesn't
> seem quite "polished" yet.

Hmmm - maybe.

I guess you are using RedHat 7.x or Mandrake 8.0?  (I presume that because
since I did this new release, I havn't had a single complaint for ANY OTHER
distro owner).

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