Arch Linux User Repository

mkdir -p ../../pkg/nethack4//usr/bin ../../pkg/nethack4//var/games/nethack4/data ../../pkg/nethack4//var/games/nethack4/save
install nethack/src/main ../../pkg/nethack4//usr/bin/nethack4
install -m 644 libnethack/dat/license ../../pkg/nethack4//var/games/nethack4/data/license
install -m 644 libnethack/dat/nhdat ../../pkg/nethack4//var/games/nethack4/data/nhdat
install -m 644 tilesets/dat/textascii.nh4ct ../../pkg/nethack4//var/games/nethack4/data/textascii.nh4ct
install -m 644 tilesets/dat/textunicode.nh4ct ../../pkg/nethack4//var/games/nethack4/data/textunicode.nh4ct
chmod: impossibile accedere a '/var/games/nethack4/save': File o directory non esistente

i tried to get this to build, but i have no idea what i'm doing in perl and searching the problem up did not help in the slightest

Could not load global config file: Max. recursion depth with nested structures exceeded at /usr/lib/perl5/5.40/core_perl/Storable.pm line 335, <DATA> line 1, at ../aimake line 6553.
at ../aimake line 6572.
main::__ANON__("Could not load global config file: Max. recursion depth with "...) called at ../aimake line 8276

Hacked for a while on the PKGBUILD, and managed to get working version with vastly simplified build file (no binary patching required).

# Maintainer: Kyle Keen <keenerd@gmail.com>

pkgname=nethack4
pkgver=4.3.0.beta2
_pkgver=4.3-beta2
pkgrel=2
pkgdesc="A modern fork of Nethack"
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
url="http://nethack4.org/"
license=('custom')
depends=('jansson' 'gcc-libs')
makedepends=('sdl2' 'libpng' 'chrpath')
optdepends=('sdl2: tiles'
            'libpng: tiles')
#source=('git+https://gitorious.org/nitrohack/ais523.git#branch=nicehack')
source=("http://nethack4.org/media/releases/nethack4-$_pkgver.tar.gz")
md5sums=('737403ba07a18fe3030a153471ba223d')

# postgresql-libs: multiuser server

package() {
  cd "$srcdir/$pkgname-$_pkgver"

  # allow aimake to run as "root"  (fakeroot confuses it)
  sed -i "s/\$os_parsed ne 'MSWin32'/0/" aimake
  # disable check for modified files (refuses to build)
  sed -i "s/\$objtype eq 'path'/0/" aimake

  mkdir -p build && cd build
  msg "Building console version"
  ../aimake --without=jansson --without=gui --without=server --install /usr --destdir "$pkgdir" --override-directory gamesbindir='/usr/bin'

  msg "Building SDL version"
  ../aimake --without=jansson --with=gui --without=server --install /usr --destdir "$pkgdir" --override-directory gamesbindir='/usr/bin'
}

@terminalnode @keenerd Error with saving logfile is caused by improper configuration. strace shows that game tries to save in my case in "/home/fenuks/.cache/yay/nethack4/src/nethack4-4.3-beta2/opt00000000000000000000/save/logfile", or in other words, in build directory.

Every game after I die I get a message saying the save file is corrupted, and that if I want to report this error at trac.nethack4.org I should include the following information:

Error: Failed to write logfile. Is it writable?

Location: libnethack/srs/topten.c:335

Game ID: <character name>_<some number>

Is this an error with the package or should it be reported to nethack4.org? It does happen consistently every game. I'm not sure where the path libnethack is supposed to be located, only that the actual save files are located in ~/.config/NetHack4/<some_number>_<character name>.nhgame (note that it's inverse to the game id, perhaps that's relevant?)

Builds fine. User fails to share meaningful error messages?

Fails to build