Angband Forums - Vanilla https://angband.live/forums/ Angband gameplay, features, trick, bugs en Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:36:53 GMT vBulletin 60 https://angband.live/forums/images/misc/rss.png Angband Forums - Vanilla https://angband.live/forums/ Removing autoconf/configure in Vanilla https://angband.live/forums/forum/angband/vanilla/257999-removing-autoconf-configure-in-vanilla Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:27:38 GMT A pull request, https://github.com/angband/angband/pull/6560 , has been submitted to remove autoconf/configure as a way to compile Vanilla Angband.... https://github.com/angband/angband/pull/6560 , has been submitted to remove autoconf/configure as a way to compile Vanilla Angband. If you do use autoconf/configure to compile Vanilla and are not at all interested in using cmake instead or have tried Vanilla's CMakeLists.txt and found it insufficient for what you want, I'd be interested to know why you would like Vanilla to retain autoconf/configure.

Personally, my concerns about completely dropping autoconf/configure are:
  • Vanilla's CMakeLists.txt is heavily reliant on pkg-config to locate external software. I know of one case where that causes it to miss available software (the version of the ncurses library included with Xcode's macOS SDK; admittedly, Vanilla's configure also has problems detecting it). I do not have enough experience with pkg-config and CMake to know how easy it is to get it to use software installed in a non-standard location, like one's home directory.
  • There has been little feedback, in terms of reported problems or bug fixes, from the community about Vanilla's CMakeLists.txt. So, I do not know if it meets what the community expects when compiling Vanilla.
]]> Vanilla backwardsEric https://angband.live/forums/forum/angband/vanilla/257999-removing-autoconf-configure-in-vanilla AI use for development? https://angband.live/forums/forum/angband/vanilla/257986-ai-use-for-development Sun, 22 Mar 2026 01:18:12 GMT Out of curiosity, how much are the active maintainers using AI here these days? Quite a few years ago I stuck my toe in the water for helping out...
Quite a few years ago I stuck my toe in the water for helping out with bug fixes, to-do items in the code, etc. but it soon became evident that my available time combined with the level of my C chops meant that I wasn't going to be much help. More recently though I've been using Claude to help write code for various small things at work, and I've been impressed with its results (though they aren't good enough not to require oversight yet).]]> Vanilla Chud https://angband.live/forums/forum/angband/vanilla/257986-ai-use-for-development