Hi Stephen, Thanks for the tips. I deleted my source tree after many tries. So I had to re-download it. I did a darcs get http://www.netrek.org/repos/netrek-client-cow/ But this time, it seems that the configure script file is missing. Jimmy --- Stephen Thorne <stephen.thorne at gmail.com> wrote: > On 5/16/06, Jimmy Huang <jimmyhua73 at yahoo.com> > wrote: > > > > Any tips on how to compile the COW client for > linux? > > > > I tried compiling it before. It compiles fine, but > as > > soon as I try to run it, it core dumps. > > Before you ./configure, change this line in > system.mk.in > > OPT = -O2 > to be: > OPT = -g -Wall > > That change will make cow compile with debugging > symbols on. > > Then run cow under gdb > > gdb ./netrek > > run > (segfault should occur) > > backtrace > > And post the backtrace on the mailing list. > > If you have the corefile (and it doesn't contain any > passwords, make > sure to omit them from your netrekrc) you can email > it to me > privately, provided you've turned debugging symbols > on for the > corefile. > -- > Stephen Thorne > > "Give me enough bandwidth and a place to sit and I > will move the world." > --Jonathan Lange > > _______________________________________________ > netrek-dev mailing list > netrek-dev at us.netrek.org > http://mailman.us.netrek.org/listinfo/netrek-dev >