Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 06:53:52 +0100 From: Martin Tournoij <carpetsmoker@xs4all.nl> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: tigner@msu.edu Subject: Re: FreeBSD-games/Larn is broken in FreeBSD7.0 Release Message-ID: <20080308055352.GA21893@phong.rwxrwxrwx.net> In-Reply-To: <20080306080053.GA93915@pin.if.uz.zgora.pl> References: <20080306080053.GA93915@pin.if.uz.zgora.pl>
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On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 09:00:53AM +0100, Edward Tomasz Napierala wrote: > In article <op.t7ivojtk9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> you wrote: > >>> When you run Larn, and chose to read/eat/drink anything the games exits > >>> with a signal 11 ,segfaults and does a coredump. > >>> > >>> You have found a magic potion > >>> Do you (d) drink it, (t) take it, or (i) ignore it? > >>> Segmentation fault (core dumped) [SIGSEGV]drink > >>> > >>> I would like to use Larn on 7.0, what do I suggest I do to fix this ? > >> > >> This is caused by the same problem as freebsd-games/hack. > >> Please refer to the thread beginning with > >> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2008-January/046245.html > >> > >> For the temporary solution, > >> edit freebsd-games/files/patch-larn_Makefile to add -fwritable-strings > >> to CFLAGS and do not forget to use gcc34 or earlier instead of gcc in > >> 7.0. > >> > >> Hope this helps. > > > > I believe that someone in DragonFly BSD did a lot of clean up in the > > src/games/*. But I don't know if these cleans up will helping with this > > issue. It might be worth for someone to dig in there and bring in FreeBSD > > if someone care about these games. > > Diff between freebsd-games and DragonFly, after removing irrelevant stuff, > is over a megabyte long. Maybe we should just use their code verbatim? > > (Untested diff at http://freebsd.org/~trasz/patch-zzz_fixes_from_dfly) > Good idea, I tested the games from DragonflyBSD and they seem to work OK on FreeBSD 7/GCC4.2 Everything compiles with some minor changes, the two issues with larn and hack are solved, I didn't test any of the other games yet. I need to do some more cleanup/testing, I will send a PR tomorrow since it's very late now ... Regards, Martin Tournoij
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