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
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