Angband 3.3.2 shared scores.raw not updating

[wuphonsreach]

See this post for the original:

http://angband.oook.cz/forum/showpost.php?p=69582&postcount=51

(breaking this out into a new thread)

http://pastebin.com/dQStQtaU

The configure command was run with:

./configure --with-setgid=games

The configure command used the directory as follows for the 'var' path:

/usr/local/var/games/angband/

Under that there are a pair of subdirectories named 'apex' and 'save', all of which are owned by the 'games' group and flagged as g+rwx.

There is a scores.raw file there (under apex folder), but it is zero bytes, owned by the 'games' group with g+rw. Instead, Angband 3.3.2 seems determined to update the scores.raw file under ~/.angband/Angband/scores/. The save files are also ending up under ~/.angband/Angband/save/ instead of the 'save' directory in the 'var' path.

There is no ANGBAND_HOME environment variable defined.

[Magnate]

Ok, I'm afraid this is a fairly tricky bug. The USE_PRIVATE_PATHS variable is being honoured when it shouldn't be. It's ticket #1280 and I've reassigned it as a priority bug for 3.4.0

I'm afraid that shared score files aren't possible with 3.3.x. Amazing that nobody's stumbled upon this until now.

[wuphonsreach]

Thanks.

Will that also fix the save files being stored under the user's profile?

[wuphonsreach]

Also, this used to work under 3.0.9, so it must have gotten broken sometime since then.

[Magnate]

Also, this used to work under 3.0.9, so it must have gotten broken sometime since then.

Oh yes. We've broken a TON of things since then ;-)

Yes, if we fix #1280 then save files will all be stored in $PREFIX/var/games/angband/save instead of in personal dirs, as well as a system-wide score file going in apex/