1375 parse error

[Magnate]

Originally Posted by PowerDiver

Someone care to teach me some unix?

Which flavour do you run? Try running "debian/rules binary" to build a .deb, if you can install debs.

I have angband running sgid games. It fails to open the savefile, WHICH IT WROTE EARLIER, when the directory has execute set only for games.
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What the heck is going on?

Dunno. The .deb uses setgid games and reads and writes the savefiles fine. It looks like something is broken on your system. Try purging everything angband-related, then build and install the .deb of r1375 - that should work.

The plan is to move away from setgid and to use --with-private-dirs instead, so don't spend too much time on this if we can't fix it. I'll commit debian/ changes to move to --with-private-dirs as soon as 3.1.1 is out (I don't want to break a perfectly good .deb before then!).

[PowerDiver]

Originally Posted by Magnate

Which flavour do you run? Try running "debian/rules binary" to build a .deb, if you can install debs.

That was on some version of suse, maybe suse 10.0 or opensuse 10.1, not sure which. It would just be an incredibly weird OS bug to show up this late in the game, I would have thought. OTOH, given the strange ./configure behavior I guess I should be looking for OS bugs in every shadow.

[takkaria]

Originally Posted by PowerDiver

That was on some version of suse, maybe suse 10.0 or opensuse 10.1, not sure which. It would just be an incredibly weird OS bug to show up this late in the game, I would have thought. OTOH, given the strange ./configure behavior I guess I should be looking for OS bugs in every shadow.

You could try using src/Makefile.std, which would involve:

$ cd src
$ make -f Makefile.std clean
$ make -f Makefile.std

That should do what you want, without getting involved in /usr/local or anything, and puts the angband executable in the directory above src. I really have no idea where the problems you're experiencing are coming from.