Review: SAngband

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  • TJA
    Adept
    • Aug 2007
    • 117

    Review: SAngband

    PART I.
    Compilation

    Code:
    unrar x sang100src.rar
    mv sang100src tmp
    mv tmp/sang100src/ .
    rmdir tmp
    cd sang100src
    cd src
    make -f Makefile.std
    make -f Makefile.std install
    cd ..
    ./sangband
    Works!
    Great!

    Has no configure Skript, but a working Makefile.std - the base of what we can wish for

    Note: sang100src.rar contains the structure sang100src\sang100src\...
  • andrewdoull
    Unangband maintainer
    • Apr 2007
    • 872

    #2
    Originally posted by TJA
    PART I.
    Compilation
    Do we get a preview of what parts II, III and so on consist of?
    The Roflwtfzomgbbq Quylthulg summons L33t Paladins -more-
    In UnAngband, the level dives you.
    ASCII Dreams: http://roguelikedeveloper.blogspot.com
    Unangband: http://unangband.blogspot.com

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    • TJA
      Adept
      • Aug 2007
      • 117

      #3
      Now, it´s called "Review" - i am trying to write down my adventures and impressions while evaluating those variants
      As a service to other who may be interested in them ....

      Also, of course i hope that the respective maintainers have a look at this and potentially fix the problems.
      I know enough people who can and do say "./configure ; make ; make install" - but not one step more!
      The more easy a variant can be compiled, the more people may try to have a look at it
      Last edited by TJA; August 20, 2007, 18:06.

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      • pav
        Administrator
        • Apr 2007
        • 793

        #4
        Hmm, never noticed S source come as a RAR archive. That's just plain wrong...
        See the elves and everything! http://angband.oook.cz

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        • TJA
          Adept
          • Aug 2007
          • 117

          #5
          Got that from here http://angband.oook.cz/variants.php?variant=sangband
          (as a rar) and also from the download-part of the homepage: http://runegold.org/sangband/files/sang100src.rar

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          • andrewdoull
            Unangband maintainer
            • Apr 2007
            • 872

            #6
            Originally posted by pav
            Hmm, never noticed S source come as a RAR archive. That's just plain wrong...
            Its even more wrong when I realised the easiest way to unrar it on a Mac is to run the windows version of 7zip in Cross Over Office...
            The Roflwtfzomgbbq Quylthulg summons L33t Paladins -more-
            In UnAngband, the level dives you.
            ASCII Dreams: http://roguelikedeveloper.blogspot.com
            Unangband: http://unangband.blogspot.com

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            • Magnate
              Angband Devteam member
              • May 2007
              • 5110

              #7
              What on earth is wrong with rar? www.rarlabs.com - there's a free trial download for OSX, among all the others.

              What stuns me is how easily the OP compiled it. I had to spend ages working out which -dev libs I needed and installing them. I can only presume he has some kind of kitchen-sink installation.

              CC
              "Been away so long I hardly knew the place, gee it's good to be back home" - The Beatles

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              • TJA
                Adept
                • Aug 2007
                • 117

                #8
                What´s kitchen-sink installation?!?
                :-O

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                • Magnate
                  Angband Devteam member
                  • May 2007
                  • 5110

                  #9
                  "Everything but the kitchen sink" is an old expression used in the UK, I think it originally comes from an advert about how much space there was in a certain car.

                  I meant where you put in the install CD (or rather DVD nowadays) and just click "install everything", so you get Gnome and KDE, half a dozen different window managers, all the development libraries that most people never use, etc. etc.

                  Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with doing that, it makes installation very simple. Hard disks are big enough nowadays that there's no longer any problem with installing unnecessary packages. Personally I can't shake off the habit of conserving disk space (from when 40 megabytes was a huge drive), so I only install one window manager, one mail client, one browser, and only the libraries I actually need. This is fine with Debian, because anything I want to install automatically tells me what else it needs to install to work (its "dependencies"). The problem only arises when I try to compile something outside the package system, like a new *band. The requirements were clear in the docs, but I had no way of translating them into which packages I needed to install. So it took ages.

                  Ho hum.
                  "Been away so long I hardly knew the place, gee it's good to be back home" - The Beatles

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                  • TJA
                    Adept
                    • Aug 2007
                    • 117

                    #10
                    I also only install what is realy needed - and i want to know what is needed

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