Re: Crossfire maps.

["Rupert G. Goldie" <>]

> Hi all,
>    I've just compiled crossfire.90.1, and that seems to have worked, but I
> have been unable to run it because of the following run-time error:
> 
> Fatal: Failed repeatedly to load maps
> 
>    I've unable to find out if the problem is the path to the maps dir (it
> appears to be ok in the crosssite.def file), or the fact that due to the
> size of the maps (20MB!!!) when uncompressed I've had to compress them all.
> 
>    Any hints on what I might be doing wrong will be much appreciated.  Also
> the name/path of the first map xfire reads would be a help.

Is the map directory readable ? 
What did you use to compress the maps. If you used gzip and didn't define
the COMPRESS variable in the Imakefile/config.h there is a bug which makes
crossfire look for foo.Z.gz instead of foo.gz (I've sent the fix to Mark)
village/village is the default start map (The chico maps start in city/city)
Try using trace to see what files crossfire is opening.

Hope this helps

Rupert