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.

When did you download them?

I actually *had* updated both programs to fix most of the things you mentioned
on July 15th.

> Tux_AQFH was missing install.sh and mkinstalldirs

...that was fixed in tux_aqfh-1.0.13.tar.gz

> 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).

This is something that someone else complained about - we kicked it around a bit
and I don't understand it.  None of my makefiles have $(top_srcdir)/../mkinstalldirs ?!?

Something must have changed subtly in the way that your version of Linux is interpreting
the configure script...but I can't for the life of me figure out what.  Since I can't
reproduce it - it's VERY tough for me to fix.

>  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?

No longer used.
 
> For TuxKart, I had to add #include <sys/socket.h> to guNet.cxx.

That's fixed in tuxkart-0.0.6.tar.gz - which has been out on the website
since July 15th.

> I also had to add -lglut to the makefiles for both games; I guess this is some error
> in the configure script?

Again, I can't reproduce this.  Whatever I do, that's in the Makefile just as it
should be.

 LIBS = -lplibsl -lplibssg -lplibpu -lplibfnt -lplibsg -lplibul
        -lglut -lGLU -lGL   -L/usr/X11R6/lib  -lSM -lICE -lpthread
        -lX11 -lXi -lXext -lXmu  -lm

(It's all on one line in the Makefile.)

I'm betting that your Linux distro has put GLUT somewhere strange.

Did the configure script complain about GLUT being missing?

> 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.

What graphics hardware do you have?

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