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Subject: Re: xfishtank & FreeBSD 1.1
Message-ID: <Crqvq6.B5B@latcs1.lat.oz.au>
From: wongm@latcs1.lat.oz.au (M.C. Wong)
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 1994 11:25:17 GMT
References: <mldCrnv8p.Ay4@netcom.com>
Organization: Comp Sci, La Trobe Uni, Australia
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In article <mldCrnv8p.Ay4@netcom.com> mld@netcom.com (Matthew Deter) writes:
>Has anyone ported xfishtank to FreeBSD?  Mine compiles cleanly, but seg
>faults when I try to run it.  If no one has ported it (it doesn't
>appear to be in the ports section at cdrom.com) I plan to.
>
>If anyone has any info on xfishtank (Version 2.2 from x.ftp.org) email
>or post, please.  This is the only platform I have at the moment, so I
>cannot see if it faults on other platforms...  gdb tells me that it is
>doing a div by zero by leaping WAY out of the bounds on an array.  I
>haven't started hunting down the reason yet, tho.
>
>If anyone can tell me if 2.2 compiles on other platforms, that would
>be cool -- at least I know the release isn't broken per se.  (I kind
>of wonder, since there is no real install info, and one of the files
>that it needs to create ("makeh") isn't done by xmkmf or make.  (and
>in fact isn't even in the Imakefile or Makefiles...))  I create it by
>hand ("cc makeh.c -o makeh") and then do make all, which compiles
>cleanly, but as I said, dumps core.
>
Hi, I did the port for 1.0.2 and it is in freebsd.cdrom.com:FreeBSD/incoming.
One of the constant defined for some random seeds (or the like) needs to be
fixed, try to run that copy, but I can't remember whethere I upload the source
or the binary ...
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- wongm@latcs1.lat.oz.au (M.C Wong)

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