johnk@juniper.UUCP (John Knutson) (06/02/88)
I tried compiling spacewar, and with a few modifications, everything compiled. then when make started trying to link things together, it tried to use a lib called dbm. the modifications i had made (to this supposedly sysV compatible program) were to change the including so that it was the local version of dbm.h and not the system version. I don't know why it was assumed that sysV has this dbm stuff whatever it is, or even if sysV is supposed to have it, but if anyone knows how i can get this stuff compiled somehow, i would appreciate it... thanks -- John Knutson ihnp4!ut-sally!ut-emx!juniper!johnk Build on the work of others -Unix System V Programmer's Guide Rack your brains on interpreting other people's code -Me Go psycho trying to understand the code you wrote just weeks ago -Me
allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) (06/11/88)
I got it to compile all the way (we have dbm, but I hate people who assume that SysV is just another name for Xenix), no problem. HOWEVER -- When I run it and enter the "play" command, it goes off into an infinite loop. I can't debug it too well on ncoast, so I've not traced it yet. I'll probably pull it onto my 1000 where I have more control over it (if it doesn't hammer the 1000 to death) and where I have sdb to use on it. But if anyone else knows what's wrong, please send me mail. -- Brandon S. Allbery | "Given its constituency, the only uunet!marque,sun!mandrill}!ncoast!allbery | thing I expect to be "open" about Delphi: ALLBERY MCI Mail: BALLBERY | [the Open Software Foundation] is comp.sources.misc: ncoast!sources-misc | its mouth." --John Gilmore