# stargnud/cfg - "Build" settings for package #--------------------------------------------------------------------- [technotes] 1. "stargnud" is a fork of "noegnud" 0.8.3. "stargnud" is more limited than "noegnud", in some respects. Most im- portantly: a. "stargnud" doesn't support SlashEm b. This version has fewer "tilesets" c. Some options are omitted d. This version only runs under Linux However, several improvements have been made: a. GUI shortcuts have been added -- just press F2 to cycle GUI modes or F3 to cycle themes. You can also press alt-F2 or alt-F3 to cycle backwards. b. This version implements phasers, tricorders, grenades, and nuclear weapons. Ed. note: I'm aware that SlashEm supports grenades (and gren- ade launchers). Therefore, grenades aren't really a new fea- ture. However, for what it's worth, they're new to Noegnud's Nethack mode. c. This version enables sound-card support automatically. d. This version has better support for older keyboards (PC-AT keyboards, in particular). e. Noegnud uses a "strobe" lighting effect that's interesting, but distracting. Stargnud disables the "strobe" effect. f. A few Nethack sounds have been added (cat meow and dog bark, borrowed from Falcon's Eye mode, plus an "eating" sound, cat purr, and slightly broader use of the existing "landmine" sound). g. The Abigabi tileset images have been sharpened slightly and some image-file names have been corrected (the filename ex- tensions were wrong). h. Some additional bugs have been fixed, including a few crash- es. #--------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. As of 2007, the official "noegnud" web site seemed to have disap- peared. Note: The "noegnud" web page at Sourceforge wasn't the offici- al site. The original author discontinued his association with Source- forge circa 2004. Therefore, there's no official URL for the original "noegnud" source tarball that we started with. However, you should be able to get a copy of the original tarball from the same place that you obtained the modified version. #--------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. "stargnud" is based on a version of "noegnud" that was apparently distributed under the Nethack General Public License. However, this isn't 100% clear, and this assertion shouldn't be treated as legal ad- vice. Circa 2004, the original author proposed switching the code to a spe- cial license. There were objections to the new license, and it ap- pears that the switch didn't take place (in 2004, at least). There- fore, the old license probably applies to the copy that we started with (it's a 2004 version). Note: These notes only apply to 2004 versions of "noegnud". The original author released at least one version of "noegnud" after 2004 (i.e., "noegnud" 0.8.4). However, due to the disappearance of the official website, nothing is known about the license used for that version. For more information, try Wikipedia. As of early 2007, there was a Wikipedia entry for "noegnud" that discusses license issues in greater detail. #--------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. "stargnud" (like "noegnud") is essentially a GUI wrapper that runs on top of core program(s) (e.g., "nethack"). The original "noegnud" source package didn't include the core-program source code. Instead, it downloaded the source code from Sourceforge automatically at "build" time. This version includes source code for the (single) variant supported; i.e., the new source tarball is self-contained. Specifically, the sou- rce tree includes an embedded tarball named "nethack-343-src.tgz", which contains the source code for Nethack 3.4.3. The latter tarball was obtained originally from: http://dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/nethack/\ nethack-343-src.tgz #--------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. "stargnud" adds a startup wrapper to the existing GUI. The startup wrapper is a simple "gtk2-perl" script which executes a dialog box. The dialog box explains a few issues (the exact number depends on the local system). For more information, see the files "readme.txt" and "stargnud.wrapper" provided in the source tree. #--------------------------------------------------------------------- 6. This package can't set "exepack = yes", because the package's main executable requires a special attribute, and the distro's executable compressor (upx) doesn't support special attributes. However, the exe- cutable is fairly large, so compression is a good idea. Therefore, the "build" block used compresses the executable directly. As a workaro- und, we remove the special attribute, run "upx", and restore the at- tribute afterwards. #--------------------------------------------------------------------- 7. In theory, if you're a Nethack expert, you can add new objects to the game. However, this version requires some extra steps (beyond the usual modifications). For more information, see the # "readme.txt" file provided in the source tree. #--------------------------------------------------------------------- 8. As of early 2008, the sizes of this distro's versions of "stargnud" were as follows: Normal hard-disk copy = 76 MB LiveDistro "squashfs" copy = 59 MB #--------------------------------------------------------------------- [buildtimes] 00.01 hours (or 000.57 minutes) - Dell Inspiron 6400 2.0 GHz Intel Duo 7200 2GB RAM 00.02 hours (or 001.28 minutes) - ThinkPad E540 i7 4x2 16GB RAM 00.11 hours (or 006.37 minutes) - Compaq 1.7 GHz Intel Pentium 4 512MB RAM #--------------------------------------------------------------------- [settings] altpkg = yes ldbefore = -lm -lc configure = none license = See "technotes" in "cfg" file setup = boot setpaths = xorg tmpsize = 141M #--------------------------------------------------------------------- [depends] alsa cpancore jpeg ncurses sdl slang xorg #--------------------------------------------------------------------- [build] DIR=`pwd`/variants/nethack-3.4.3/include export LACINCDIRS=$DIR:$LACINCDIRS SPCMISC=$PKGDIR_SPECIAL/misc cd wrapper WRAPDIR=`pwd` cd .. for x in \ data/sound/nhs.nethackrc \ variants/Makefile \ variants/diffs/*.patch do sed -e "s|/opt/stargnud|$PKGDIR_PROD|g" -i $x done cd variants make spotless make nh343 make install_nh343 make install_data EXEFILE=noegnud-0.8.0-nethack-3.4.3 cd $PKGDIR_PROD/lib/noegnud-0.8.0/nethack-3.4.3/ chmod 755 $EXEFILE upx --lzma $EXEFILE chmod g+s $EXEFILE cd $PKGDIR_PROD/bin sed -e "s|^MAXNROFPLAYERS=.*|MAXNROFPLAYERS=20|" \ -i noegnud-nethack-3.4.3 ln -nsf noegnud-nethack-3.4.3 stargnud.bin cp -p $WRAPDIR/stargnud.wrapper stargnud chmod 755 stargnud ln -nsf stargnud noegnud cd .. mkdir -p misc cp -p $WRAPDIR/*.png misc/ cp -p $SPCMISC/Rob_Balder_-_* misc/ #--------------------------------------------------------------------- [postbuild] BINDIR=$PKGDIR_PROD/bin PROGBASE=stargnud cd $BINDIR mv $PROGBASE $PROGBASE-menu sed -e "s|__META_LACUTIL__|$SYSDIR_LACUTIL|g" \ -e "s|__META_PREFIX__|$PKGDIR_PROD|g" \ -e "s|__META_PRODTREE__|$PRODTREE|g" \ < $PKGDIR_SPECIAL/wrappers/$PROGBASE.wrapper.in \ > $PROGBASE chmod 755 $PROGBASE #--------------------------------------------------------------------- [setup.boot] # Remove old "lock" files rm -f $PKGDIR_PROD/lib/noegnud-*/nethack-*/alock.* #--------------------------------------------------------------------- # Original URLs. These URLs were valid at one point, but may have died # since then. If you download newer versions of tarballs [etc.], don't # delete the original versions, as you may not be able to replace # them. [urls] url_debian = none url_home = none # See "technotes" in "cfg" file url_lfs = none url_tarball = none # See "technotes" in "cfg" file