Autoconf was failing to detect install-sh at the top level and needed
some explicit directions. It also wants config.guess and config.sub to
be provided too.
A few other macros have also been updated.
There should only be two changes in behavior:
arogue7/fight.c, arogue7/fight.c: a to-hit bonus is now correctly
applied to characters who are not monks instead of monks who are not
empty-handed.
urogue/fight.c: fixed an interaction with the "debug" macro that could
cause the wrong message to be displayed.
Some games' implementation of md_hasclreol() poked around in ncurses
internals, which does not work for some ncurses build configuration.
Most games did not actually call md_hasclreol(), so it was removed.
There is a standard terminfo function which can retrieve the value of
the clr_eol capability, so this was used for rogue5.
The function wrapped the standard putchar(), doing nothing beside
discarding the return value. That could cause problems with tputs(),
which expects an int to be returned.
The new function md_random_seed() has replaced time() + getpid() and
similar methods. Putting everything in mdport.c slightly reduces the
warnings and workarounds.
Rogue V3 allowed the player to gain perpetual haste by quaffing a
potion of haste while already hasted. This is supposed to remove the
haste effect and cause temporary paralysis.
Super-Rogue removed haste correctly, but gave confusing messages.
Violet fungi (renamed venus flytraps in Rogue V5) do an increasing
amount of damage each time they hit. If they miss, you still suffer
the same number of HP. This worked by keeping a counter and printing
new damage strings into monsters[5].m_stats.s_dmg, which is the
"prototype" of that particular monster.
Each individual monster has its own damage string. Apparently these
were once char *, pointing to the same string as the prototype. When
the s_dmg member was changed to be an internal char array, changing the
prototype's damage string no longer had any effect on actual monsters.
As a result, flytraps did no damage on a hit, or only one point in V5.
The mechanism for doing damage on a miss continued to work.
This has been fixed by overwriting the individual monster's damage
string instead of the prototype's. It is now no longer necessary to
reset the damage string when the flytrap is killed. The method for
resetting it when the hero teleports away had to be modified. Comments
referencing the long-unused xstr have been removed.
This is done by make, in the 'docs' target, which is now part of the
normal build process.
Unfortunately, not all the games include troff sources. Getting decent
HTML output from groff is still a difficult process which will not be
attempted at this time. There are a few bugs in the 'install' and
'uninstall' rules.
Not to mention that the documentation is sometimes inaccurate.
A custom autoconf macro searched for the curses library, and provided an
option to use ncurses instead of a (presumably deficient) curses
implementation. Unfortunately, some of the Makefiles ignored the
search's results.
Now that this is fixed, building against pdcurses should be easier too.
GCC5 enables more warnings by default, including pre-ANSI implicit
function definitions. These two games now build cleanly, but the others
will require more effort.
md_shellescape() sets SIGINT and SIGQUIT to be ignored, storing the
previous handlers, and restores them after the shell exits. But it
mixed up the two handlers.
Since the signals were usually handled by the same function, this fix
doesn't have much effect, but anything that makes signal code less
confusing is a good thing.
The player name is stored in whoami[], which is length 80 in most games
(1024 in rogue5). Only the first 10 chars were used to create
file_name, because that buffer is the same length. Increasing the size
of file_name to 256 permits using all of whoami.
The name is also no longer truncated to 20 chars when writing the log.
All games should now be able to handle 79-character names without
collisions. Anything more would break save compatibility.
In rogue5/state.c, rs_read_daemons() zeroes out the argument and delay
if the daemon slot is empty. Unfortunately that code ended up on the
wrong side of the brace that closes the for loop, so instead of running
after each daemon, it got run once after the loop exited, when the
index was of course out of bounds.
This tended to manifest, when compiled with -O2, by overwriting hw and
setting it to NULL. When inventory() next ran, hw would be passed to
wgetch(), which returns ERR when it gets a NULL argument. This made
md_readchar() think something was wrong and autosave the game.
Upon investigation, rogue3 was found to commit the same mistake.
rogue4 and srogue don't zero the data. arogue5 already does it
properly.
Someday I am going to run all this through Valgrind. Someday when I
am a kinder person who will not be driven to invoke hordes of trolls
and centaurs upon the original authors.
md_readchar() mapped KEY_BACKSPACE to CTRL-H, but get_str(), which
handles prompts for strings, only backs up when it receives the erase
character. The key should be mapped to md_erasechar().
This fixes Red Hat Bugzilla #847852.
In all games, rs_write_room_reference() stored -1 for a nonexistent
room, but rs_read_room_reference() did not check for out-of-bounds
values, leading to pointers to rooms[-1], which sometimes caused
crashes. rs_read_room_reference() has now been modified to use NULL
instead.
Some of the games required further changes to replace NULL with the
pointer to the actual room. Others are capable of handling NULL for
objects not in any room.
