Welcome to Empire 4, code-named Wolfpack.
Empire is a multi-player, client/server Internet based war game.
-Copyright (C) 1986-2007, Dave Pare, Jeff Bailey, Thomas Ruschak, Ken
+Copyright (C) 1986-2010, Dave Pare, Jeff Bailey, Thomas Ruschak, Ken
Stevens, Steve McClure
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
If you downloaded a tarball, unpack it.
- If you're pulling from CVS, check out and run bootstrap. This
- requires recent versions of Autoconf and Automake to be installed.
+ If you cloned a git repository, run bootstrap. This requires
+ recent versions of Autoconf and Automake to be installed.
(2) Building a server
- Prerequisites: GNU make and, ANSI C, a curses library, Perl, nroff
- or GNU troff (`groff'), Bourne Shell and the common utilities,
- conforming to the Single UNIX Specification Version 2.
+ Prerequisites: IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (POSIX.1-2001), GNU make, a
+ curses library, Perl, and either nroff or GNU troff (`groff').
See file `INSTALL' for detailed compilation and installation
instructions. Quick guide for the impatient: run configure; make;
If make fails without doing anything, you're probably not using
GNU make. Some systems have it installed as `gmake'.
- Solaris supports SUSv2, but you need to set up your environment
- for that. Try passing
- SHELL=/usr/xpg4/bin/sh PATH=/usr/xpg4/bin:$PATH
+ Solaris supports POSIX.1-2001, but you need to set up your
+ environment for that. Try passing
+ SHELL=/usr/xpg4/bin/sh PATH=/usr/xpg6/bin:/usr/xpg4/bin:$PATH
to make. See standards(5) for details.
(3) Creating a game