Hello, Angband community. I'd like to ask that we somehow edit the compiling instructions for Linux of Vannilla Angband.
Firstly, I don't know if certian apps/packages turn the configure.ac file into an executable, but there is no executable configure file in the tarball, so, for me at least (using Lubuntu), entering "./Configure" doesn't work.
It did, however, work with cmake, but only after I took a step that wasn't in the instructions: make install. If you don't run (sudo) make install, you won't be able to run (at least the multi-user build) of the Angband executable. You'll get an error along the lines of "cannont access lib/save. It may be broken"
I thought I'd let the community know about this in case some poor soul who doesn't know anything about compiling software compiles the latest Angband on their Debian-based system (which only has a quite outdated angband package in it's stable repository), and can't get Angband to work.
I must add, though, that this is just for the multi-user build of Angband, and I'm not sure if this same error happens for the default installation from the tarball, but nonetheless, it's something I'd thought I'd report.
Best reguards, Zadhax.
Firstly, I don't know if certian apps/packages turn the configure.ac file into an executable, but there is no executable configure file in the tarball, so, for me at least (using Lubuntu), entering "./Configure" doesn't work.
It did, however, work with cmake, but only after I took a step that wasn't in the instructions: make install. If you don't run (sudo) make install, you won't be able to run (at least the multi-user build) of the Angband executable. You'll get an error along the lines of "cannont access lib/save. It may be broken"
I thought I'd let the community know about this in case some poor soul who doesn't know anything about compiling software compiles the latest Angband on their Debian-based system (which only has a quite outdated angband package in it's stable repository), and can't get Angband to work.
I must add, though, that this is just for the multi-user build of Angband, and I'm not sure if this same error happens for the default installation from the tarball, but nonetheless, it's something I'd thought I'd report.
Best reguards, Zadhax.
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