Crossfire v0.89.2

[(Gregory R. Weiss)]

I'm having real problems installing this game.  My setup:
 SunOS Release 4.1.3
 gcc 2.3.3

I first got errors while compiling that it couldn't find stdarg.h.
After making a symbolic link to in in the crosfire/include directory, 
the program compiled cleanly, with just one or two warnings.
The files compiled with the following options:

gcc -ansi -Wall -O -pipe -I../include  -I/usr/princeton/include -DFONTDIR=\"/u/grweiss/pub/crossfire/fonts/misc\" -DFONTNAME=\"crossfire\"   -DLIBDIR=\"/u/grweiss/pub/crossfire/lib\" -target sun4 -c  logger.c

For the curious, crossfire -o shows the following options

Non-standard include files:
<stdlib.h>
<malloc.h>
<sys/timeb.h>
Secure:         <true>
Logging:                <true>
Libdir:         /u/grweiss/pub/crossfire/lib
Perm file:      <LIB>/forbid
Shutdown file:  <LIB>/shutdown
Save player:    <true>
Save mode:      0600
Playerdir:      <LIB>/players
Save homedir:   <false>
Lock player:    <false>
Use checksum:   <true>
Tmpdir:         /tmp
Fontdir:        /u/grweiss/pub/crossfire/fonts/misc
Compress:       /usr/ucb/compress
Uncompress:     /usr/ucb/uncompress
Map timeout:    80
Map reset:      7200
Max objects:    3000
Use_calloc:     <true>
Speed_game:     <true>
Use_los:        <true>
CD los:         <true>
CHRFONT:        <false>
Use_swap_stats: <true>
DM mail:        
Editor:         /local/X11R5/bin/xterm -geometry 80x24+0+0 -e /usr/ucb/vi
Server:         <true>
Port:           13326
Max_time:       120000
SunOS rogue 4.1.3 1 sun4m

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I have a number of problems.  Right now, I'm just trying to run it
from my account, without any multi-player features yet.

When I run crossfire without the -pix option, it receives a SIGSEGV 
right away, before opening the X window.  I have the Fontdir set to
my crossfire/fonts/misc directory, and it contains the two files:
-rw-r--r--  1 grweiss    223760 Feb 11 11:20 crossfire.pcf
-rw-r--r--  1 grweiss        26 Feb 11 11:20 fonts.dir

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Well, I can bypass that problem by using the -pix command-line option.

When I start the game this way (crossfire -b -pix), I get the X window
looking fine and dandy, and then I run into a dead end when it asks me:

What is your name?
:Greg
That name is already in use.
What is your name?
:anything
That name is already in use.
What is your name?
...

No name is acceptable and I can't go on without answering this
question.  I've tried removing and adding the SAVE_HOMEDIR and
LOCK_PLAYER variables in include/config.h with no success.  I was able
to #undef SAVE_PLAYER and run the game (yea!) without the save file
ability, but I've had no success with it.  My current definitions:

#define SAVE_PLAYER

#ifdef SAVE_PLAYER /* The following have no meaning without SAVE_PLAYER */
#undef SAVE_HOMEDIR 
#undef LOCK_PLAYER
#define USE_CHECKSUM
/* #define ENABLE_CHECKSUM */ /* Will be default in distant future versions */
#endif

#ifndef PLAYERDIR
#define PLAYERDIR "players"
#endif

I do have a players directory in my lib directory: crossfire/lib/players, 
as well as in my home directory.

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So, I tried using the -d and -debug command line options, which led to
further problems:

% crossfire -b -d -pix                     
Welcome to CrossFire, v0.89.2, copyright (C) 1992 Frank Tore Johansen.
Maintained locally by: 
Questions and bugs should be mailed to the above address.
arch-pass 1...done
Setting up archetable...done
loading treasure...done
arch-pass 2...done
Reading bmaps...done (got 265704/836)
Building ximages...done
Opening add user socket on 0
 
SIGSEGV received.
Emergency save:  5?|6 (failed) 
Cleaning up...

The sigsegv arrived several seconds after finishing opening the add
user socket and prompting me for a name, whether or not I typed
anything.

If I did manage to type in a name, it still didn't accept it, and it
gave me no error messages on stderr or stdout.


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With all these problems, I've had the same behavior when trying to run
crossfire using crossfire -server and crossclient.

I tried compiling with the USE_CALLOC; still the same problems.

(One other thing that often crashed my no-save games; bashing
destructible walls led to the server getting a SIGSEGV.)

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Any help or advice you could give me would be appreciated. 
I acutally tried version 0.90 first, but I had problems with it, and
since it was marked as "ALPHA", I decided to try 0.89.2.
Unfortunately, that version wasn't much better.

  --Greg Weiss