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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

I'm still getting trouble saving (corrupted saves) - I can't quite figure out what is going wrong there, though.

Should be fixed now, for very hacky values of fixed. There might be a legit way of solving the paths issue with aimake, but I could not find one.

I'm getting repeated errors when trying to run the game: Warning: could not open tileset file '/home/user/.config/NetHack4/tilesets/textunicode.nh4ct' or '/home/user/.cache/pacaur/nethack4/src/nethack-4.4.3-beta2/opt/data/textuniode.nh4ct' The relevent file exists in /usr/share/nethack4 but it seems that for some reason, the game is searching in the wrong directories. EDIT: Related problems persists in other areas of the game as well (it cannot find the nhdat, cannot create save file at the moment).

No build errors with beta2.

Compilation error here too: Building from libuncursed/src/plugins/sdl.c/sdl.c (rule compile_c) produced warnings, with the following command line: /usr/bin/gcc -c -g -O2 -fno-common -Wall -fvisibility=hidden -fdiagnostics-show-option -Wextra -Wno-missing-field-initializers -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-sign-compare -Wold-style-definition -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -D_REENTRANT -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=700 --std=c11 -DNETCLIENT -fPIC -o libuncursed/src/plugins/sdl.c/sdl.o -include aimake/aimake_1.h -I libuncursed/include/uncursed.h -I libuncursed/include/uncursed_hooks.h -I libuncursed/include/uncursed_sdl.h libuncursed/src/plugins/sdl.c/sdl.c /var/cache/pacman/pkg/nethack420297/nethack4/src/libuncursed/src/plugins/sdl.c: In function ‘load_png_file_to_texture’: /var/cache/pacman/pkg/nethack420297/nethack4/src/libuncursed/src/plugins/sdl.c:125:18: warning: variable ‘rv’ might be clobbered by ‘longjmp’ or ‘vfork’ [-Wclobbered] SDL_Texture *rv = NULL; ^